Companies that don’t encode their emails properly

HxBro — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:29:25 +0000

One thing that I’ve noticed recently is the number of emails I get from companies that don’t get to me due to email headers not been encoded correctly. So I’ve decided to start a name and shame section for me to post the ones that do send emails that are broken. I expect a lot of spam/virus filters out there will block these emails so companies are losing out on potential business by not doing something which should be straight forward to fix.

Ebuyer – Has for some really unknown reason has 3/4 in their X-Mailer: header, this really is a strange one, for most emails from other companies it’s something in the subject but in the X-Mailer header?!?!??!

Aria – Subjects not encoded, they always have Â£ in their subject

ebookers – Subjects not encoded, another Â£ in the subject

Petsupermarket – Subjects not encoded, another Â£ in the subject and a ; randomly in the text – surely someone proof reads before sending the emails out ?

CCL Online – Subjects not encoded, another Â£ in the subject

Advanced mp3 players – subjects not encoded, another Â£ in the subject

I’ve contacted some of the above companies, and will do the rest if I can find technical contacts that would deal with this sort of thing on their website.

Feel free to post any companies that fail to follow proper email encoding.

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Companies that don’t encode their emails properly