At HelpEncourage.Me, one of the features is the ability to invite your friends and have them send you helpful advice and encouragement. This means that sometimes I need to send email on your behalf – usually in the form of invitations to join the website or to become a specific user’s friend. In previous posts, […]
Avoiding the SPAM Folder – DKIM
In my last post, I mentioned that after the public launch of HelpEncourage.Me, many of our emails were being sent to the SPAM folder by the big three (Google, Yahoo, and Hotmail). The first step I took to resolve this issue was adding an SPF record to authorize mail servers to send email on behalf […]
Avoiding the SPAM folder – SPF Records
At HelpEncourage.Me, I use email for a variety of purposes: invitations, reminders, resetting passwords, etc. However, I noticed that the emails would often get moved into the SPAM folder by various email providers. Obviously, that is not a good thing, especially since these are transactional emails that are triggered by a direct request from users. […]