Sending email from app in vb6 to hotmail

9 May 2007 5:52 PM

Wels Tuesta

Hi everybody,
Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
with more ocx and dlls.

Please helpme, any idea?

9 May 2007 6:07 PM

Darhl Thomason

"Wels Tuesta" <Wels Tue***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CE3C09E8-787E-4123-9F09-6561A3C2700B@microsoft.com...
> Hi everybody,
> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
> with more ocx and dlls.
>
> Please helpme, any idea?
>

It's hard to say, but I would presume it's because HotMail is flagging it as
junk. I would recommend signing in to the HotMail account and updating the
white list of allowed senders or safe senders or whatever HotMail calls it
with the email address that is sending the message from your VB app. Then
it should make it to the inbox as desired.

d

10 May 2007 2:01 AM

MikeD

"Wels Tuesta" <Wels Tue***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CE3C09E8-787E-4123-9F09-6561A3C2700B@microsoft.com...
> Hi everybody,
> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
> with more ocx and dlls.

If the mail's getting "sent" (regardless of whether it ends up in a junk
mail folder), the problem's NOT with how you're sending it and there's
nothing you can do except ask the user to "unjunk" the mail and allow mail
from whatever email address you're sending it from. IOW, it's the *user*
that needs to take action to allow the email, not you.

As to why the email's getting flagged as junk mail, well, that could be the
user's own filters or it could his/her ISP (most of which provide filtering
for obvious/known junk email) or it could be something else set up by
network administrators (who've installed some kind of email filtering) for
their server (for instance, if they use Exchange Server).

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

10 May 2007 2:45 AM

Steve Gerrard

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"MikeD" <nob***@nowhere.edu> wrote in message
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>
> "Wels Tuesta" <Wels Tue***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CE3C09E8-787E-4123-9F09-6561A3C2700B@microsoft.com...
>> Hi everybody,
>> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
>> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
>> with more ocx and dlls.
>
> If the mail's getting "sent" (regardless of whether it ends up in a junk mail
> folder), the problem's NOT with how you're sending it and there's nothing you
> can do except ask the user to "unjunk" the mail and allow mail from whatever
> email address you're sending it from. IOW, it's the *user* that needs to take
> action to allow the email, not you.
>
> As to why the email's getting flagged as junk mail, well, that could be the
> user's own filters or it could his/her ISP (most of which provide filtering
> for obvious/known junk email) or it could be something else set up by network
> administrators (who've installed some kind of email filtering) for their
> server (for instance, if they use Exchange Server).
>
>

One small addition: some SMTP servers will do a reverse DNS lookup on the
sender. If it can't be verified, the email header gets "unverified sender" in
the header, which could be made the basis for identifying junk mail.

So, if you are sending out an email with a From email address, and the domain of
that address doesn't match the machine you are sending it from, it may get
tagged as possible spam.

10 May 2007 2:57 AM

MikeD

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"Steve Gerrard" <mynameh***@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "MikeD" <nob***@nowhere.edu> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Wels Tuesta" <Wels Tue***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CE3C09E8-787E-4123-9F09-6561A3C2700B@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with
>>> pop3,
>>> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i
>>> try
>>> with more ocx and dlls.
>>
>> If the mail's getting "sent" (regardless of whether it ends up in a junk
>> mail folder), the problem's NOT with how you're sending it and there's
>> nothing you can do except ask the user to "unjunk" the mail and allow
>> mail from whatever email address you're sending it from. IOW, it's the
>> *user* that needs to take action to allow the email, not you.
>>
>> As to why the email's getting flagged as junk mail, well, that could be
>> the user's own filters or it could his/her ISP (most of which provide
>> filtering for obvious/known junk email) or it could be something else set
>> up by network administrators (who've installed some kind of email
>> filtering) for their server (for instance, if they use Exchange Server).
>>
>>
>
> One small addition: some SMTP servers will do a reverse DNS lookup on the
> sender. If it can't be verified, the email header gets "unverified sender"
> in the header, which could be made the basis for identifying junk mail.
>
> So, if you are sending out an email with a From email address, and the
> domain of that address doesn't match the machine you are sending it from,
> it may get tagged as possible spam.

I'm sure that's one reason why an email may get flagged as junk....hardly
the only one though. It could just be whatever subject the email has.

I'm sure this has happened to everyone, but I occasionally don't get
legitimate emails because the subject contains certain text that I have
filtered. Several times a week, through my work email address, I get notices
that legit emails were sent to the junk email folder simply due to the
subject (I know that because I receive other emails from the sender that
don't get blocked).

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

10 May 2007 3:27 AM

mayayana

As others have pointed out, getting classified as spam
is not a problem with the sending. But there seem
to be problems with hotmail lately, as well. According to this
link, you may be lucky that you got through at all:

http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/01/hotmail_friendly_fire/

Apparently hotmail is beginning to scan on the basis
of IP address. That's a problem because very few
people are entirely responsible for the actions of
their own server. If your ISP or your web host get
blackballed, there's not much that you can do.

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> Hi everybody,
> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
> with more ocx and dlls.
>
> Please helpme, any idea?
>
>

14 May 2007 6:20 PM

Wels Tuesta

Hello to all, I have formed as equal account as autolook, when shipment from
outlok the mail arrives in the entrance tray, when I do it from any
application arrives at the tray nonwished.

thanks. i need help

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"Wels Tuesta" wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> Please, i have app in vb6, using ocx's or dll for sending mail with pop3,
> where send mail to hotmail, the mail is in folder junk mail..? why? i try
> with more ocx and dlls.
>
> Please helpme, any idea?
>
>