sending mail with php & escaping hotmails junk folder

My company does professional e-mail marketting campaigns (through strongmail servers) we send thousands of (sollicited) emails a day to all kinds of addresses.

The problem you are facing is that you have no authority. You could just be some spammer trying to send loads of spam.

The thing you need to do is:

  • Add unsubscribe links
  • Apply for hotmail’s Junkmail reporting program (JMRP) and MAKE SURE people that press the ‘this is junk’ button do not get mailed again. This will up your ‘sender score; @ hotmail and allow you messages to get through.
  • Add SPF and other antispam solutions.
  • Do not send more than 50 e-mails per minute to @hotmail.com (other domains have other limits)

B.t.w we use PHPMailer to compose our messages, no problem at all with that 🙂
The problem nowadays really is the restricting receiving mailservers.

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