ASP generated email blocked as spam

[emozley]

Hi,

Quite a large part of an app that have written for booking boardrooms, equipment etc. involves automatic emails being sent to and from people with calendar entries and other information. This all happens on a private network.

The problem I have come up against is that our spam filter is picking up on the fact that the sender's address is spoofed and is therefore blocking it. Eg if I book a laptop and projector an email arrives in Admin Department's mailbox appearing to come from me.

The emails are generated using CDONTS and we are using Interscan Messaging Security Suite. Has anyone come across this before and are there any workarounds? The only thing I can think of is to make all emails generated by the app come from an address and add that address to the approved senders list. This is not ideal though!

cheers

Ed

 

[Sheco]

1) Use a valid address.
2) Figure out how to trick the filter.
3) Disable the filter.

A valid, dedicated email account is probably the best way. You might be able to trick the filter by bouncing the mail off a server that is outside your network but that introduces another point of failure.