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Microsoft Outlook: Spam Words To Avoid In Your Emails

Published on February 25, 2010 in General and Tips & tricks. 2 Comments Tags: outlook, spam filters, spam words.

Occasionally, Microsoft updates the list of key words and phrases that will trigger rejection by their spam filters. It means that if you do not pay attention to them, your emails will automatically go into the recipient’s Junk folder. As a result, your email deliverability may decrease.
Here are the current words and phrases.

First 8 characters of From are digits
Subject contains “advertisement”
Body contains “money back ”
Body contains “cards accepted”
Body contains “removal instructions”
Body contains “extra income”
Subject contains “!” AND Subject contains “$”
Subject contains “!” AND Subject contains “free”
Body contains “,000″ AND Body contains “!!” AND Body contains “$”
Body contains “Dear friend”
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You’re not a spammer, so don’t let your emails get blocked by mistake!

Published on January 14, 2010 in Tips & tricks. 2 Comments Tags: smtp, spam, spam filters.

These days, the majority of email servers have an automatic spam filtering service. These spam filters are quite intelligent, but sometimes they can make mistakes and delete (or send to the spam box) completely valid emails. This is a very common problem, particularly with free or low cost email accounts. If you think that a lot of your emails are being filtered into the spam box by mistake, here are some simple tips to follow to avoid being classified as a spammer:

1. Always include a “pure text” section: even if they are written in an HTML format, personal emails always automatically include a section of pure text. If they don’t, the majority of spam filters flag them up as suspicious. After you have finished writing an email, use the SendBlaster “HTML Text” button to automatically create a pure text section from the HTML code.

2. Write, don’t draw: the main body of the message must be text. Avoid inserting too many images or images which make your email too large. Once again, spam filters can become suspicious if there appears to be more image than text.

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200+ Spam Words and Phrases To Avoid in Your Email Newsletters

Published on October 19, 2009 in General and Tips & tricks. 15 Comments Tags: spam assassin, spam filters, spam words.

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Do you usually use these phrases in your email newsletters? Well, if you do not want to be flagged as a spammer forget them! Spam filters perform regular tests on mail messages to determine if they are spam or not.
Most of them work on a point system, so that the occurrence of just one “spam phrase” probably will not trigger rejection. But if your points are too high, your message will get blocked, even if well designed and formatted.

The good news is that you can save your deliverability by avoiding all those “spam” words and combinations of words.
Here is a (not definitive) list of 200+ spam words.

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