smtp mail

I tried using the smtp stuff from asp.net the emails seem to send fine, with 1 problem:

I tested sending stuff to my hotmail through my aspx website, and the mail is landing in my junk mail folder. This is not spam. I work for a nonprofit, and I am using this feature on our website to make it easier for visitors to send email to their representatives on important issues.

Can someone tell me why my emails are ending up in the junk mail folder in hotmail? Is there a way I can avoid this? (yeah, I know, our representatives throw our letters in the junk anyways.)

or am I better off just letting people copy and paste the email from our website? That way, I'll know it'll go through.

Thanks for any thoughts.I think this may be an issue dealing more with the hotmail junk email filter, but try setting your From email address to something else. What are you using now? I am not sure though if hotmail verifies the return address but maybe the from has to be a valid email. If you think about it though most spam mail will comes from automated programs, so I think it is quite good that hotmail is able to identify these.

hope this helps,

sivilian
Hello, this happens if you have set a filter in the hotmail. Which means that only emails whose addresses are in the contact list, will be directed to the inbox others will go to junk.
so there is no problem with the email you are sending. Does this clarify the issue ?

Regards.
haidar,

I think most mail sites like hotmail use in-built spam detectors to shunt things to junk too, regardless of whether you have set a filter or not.

I remember a warning in hotmail to check your junk mail from time to time in case things were accidentally sent there...
Well, I have set a filter on my hotmail, I never recieve anything in my inbox from outside my contact list. But the problem with our friend is somewhat weird.

Regards.
thank you. I have 1 more minor problem.

When have a string for the body of the email, it sometimes seems to create an automatic newline in the middle of my message.

It seems to do this when I send to hotmail, but I haven't tested it on other emails yet.
Hello, if you are sending an html email, make sure you don't have a <br> in your code.

Regards.