how do i get rid of the powered by image

[R0Z]

[Mibble]

I have no idea what kind of server you are on, etc. I host many sites using phplist, have Spamassassin installed, along with RBL. The server does not catch anything from phplist as spam. It is most likely in your config.php that you do not have the address' setup properly as the outbound. If you do not set it properly, it goes out as 'nobody@whateverserver.com' and that is what will catch the spam.

[thewitt]

It's actually the RX Logic SPAM engine that's catching this. It's an eMail Defense service that Tucows sells through resellers.

I have no idea how many subscribers they have (my own business has several hundred), but it's very easy to test cause and effect and I've now done so conclusively.

With the Powered By message in place - and nothing else in the email - the SPAM trigger is pulled.

Sorry.

-t

[Mibble]

[R0Z]

To possibly help someone who does not really understand PHP, this is the code which needs to be commented out:

//*********
if (!EMAILTEXTCREDITS) {
$html["signature"] = $PoweredByImage;#'<div><a><img></a></div>';
# oops, accidentally became spyware, never intended that, so take it out again
$html["signature"] = preg_replace('/src=".*power-phplist.png"/','src="powerphplist.png"',$html["signature"]);
} else {
$html["signature"] = $PoweredByText;
}
******//

Thanks again Mr. Hewitt.

[R0Z]

[timor]

[alexc]

[lburkle]

[chow]

Yes, most mail server spam filters generally filter messages based on IP addresses. Yes, header info is a common give away of Spam, however many software spam filters (ie client end) filter by looking for similar text patterns, hence, spammers send advertising spliced among random text from books etc. The spam filter looks to see if any more that a certain percentage of the message text (plain or html) matches that of any messages that have already been tagged as spam. Therefore, if your user has received a message from someone else using phplist which they have previously tagged as spam, it could quite well tag your message as spam, particularly if you are sending short messages, in which case, the phplist logo will make up a larger percentage of your message. And once again, you pay for someone else's abuse of the system!

My advice: credit where credit is due; don't comment out the phplist logo, simply exchange it for some other unique code - that way you can also customise it to suit your mail template so it is not obtrusive.

[cal]

Why are people removing the credits code at the end of the email? Cause they are charging there clients heaps for something they did not build. You should leave it on or donate some money to the guys that have worked/working hard to make this great web app if you want to remove the credits. I have spent the last month hacking and changing the code making it as much mine as it is thier's and I have left the credits there just changed them a little bit on the subscribe and sent out emails to read "powered by phplist © my company" I only removed the Tincan as it confused some people but all other pages have the original. For future installs I will charge the client extra and pay that to the guys built it as I know to build something like this would cost thousands. So all credit to the guys/girls of phplist.

P.S. phplist links to there site I didnt't remove that either and all other pages like unsubscribe i have hacked to keep the original credits

[bakermike]

Hi,

I think the sender frame policy might help you guys on this.

I have heard stories that if you have too many links in your email that are 'different' it adds to the spam count?

Not sure on the validity...

[ekersey]

Another reason to want to use the plain text is that Lotus Notes doesn't seem to recognize .png as a graphic to be displayed. Maybe this can be changed by the Notes admin, but out of the box, the powered by graphic is a big red X.

[madt]

[BlueFeather]