Spam checking

[eluser]megabyte[/eluser]
Does anyone know of an open source project such as this:

http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/


That could be installed on your own server?

[eluser]bretticus[/eluser]
Are you referring to blog/forum spam or email? What does this have to do with Codeigniter?

[eluser]megabyte[/eluser]
If you visited the link you'd see exactly what I was talking about.

A script that scores your email for spam. I use the CI email library and one of the biggest issues I find is it always sending my emails to the junk folder.

Everything has to do with CodeIgniter! I eat, sleep, live and breath it!

Maybe someone has written one for CI.

I'm not promoting site sell, this isn't my first post.

[eluser]bretticus[/eluser]
I did visit the link. But the reason your emails end up in junk folders is because they come from your home computer. This has nothing to do with CI. There is no PHP code that will prevent this. If you really need email delivered in a dependable fashion, use your gmail account. If this is a larger opt-in mass email project, there are many companies that will host your smtp.

[eluser]megabyte[/eluser]
Well that's not the only reason.

I also think a spam check tool would be something lots of people would find useful.

Knowing how your email is going to score is important.

I appreciate the info. But how come when I use PHPMailer it never gets moved to the spam folder?

And I checked my email and it scored super low. I used a campaign monitor template as a starting point and did as much research as possible.

[eluser]bretticus[/eluser]
[quote author="megabyte" date="1274219155"]Well that's not the only reason.

I also think a spam check tool would be something lots of people would find useful.
[/quote]

You know, you can run these against spamassassin and it's free. I suppose if that's what you mean than I would create a way to evoke spamassassin from PHP and see what it gets scored as (however just avoid stuff like viagra and porn and you're probably good

However I was referring to the fact that many ISPs block your email before it ever has a chance to get to your junk folder. For example, many ISPs will block an email just because it originates from a home computer (you know, all those bots out there perpetuating mountains of spam every day.) This is network specific (SPF records, reliable ISP, no blacklisting, etc.) This you have no control over in code.

That said, it doesn't hurt to improve your changes against anti-spam engines like spamassassin. I agree with you here. We were just on different pages. Obviously, I did not fully understand your aim.
[quote author="megabyte" date="1274219155"]

Knowing how your email is going to score is important.

I appreciate the info. But how come when I use PHPMailer it never gets moved to the spam folder?

[/quote]

No idea because the only things that re potentially different is stuff like x-mailer (in the header.) Insignificant stuff. Also, depending on your CI email config, you may have the email originating form the webserver, whereas, PHPMailer may be relaying mail to a SMTP server that has reverse DNS and SPF records setup for the From account domain. Unless that's the case, I'd probably chalk it up to coincidence.

[quote author="megabyte" date="1274219155"]

And I checked my email and it scored super low. I used a campaign monitor template as a starting point and did as much research as possible.[/quote]

To answer your question (now that I understand it better) I'd look into mashing PHP and spamassassin.