Title: MIME
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# MIME

 *  [sorted-it](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorted-it/)
 * (@sorted-it)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/)
 * Many of my emails I send out are being spammed and I understand that one way 
   of reducing this is to include a text version of the email.
 * How do I configure the outgoing email to include Multi-part MIME emails?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-before-download/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-before-download/)

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 *  [dtynan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtynan/)
 * (@dtynan)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/#post-7128859)
 * I assume you mean that most of the emails EBD is sending out are ending up in
   the user’s spam folder or possibly not showing up at all, correct?
 * If that’s right, then the problem is most likely due to the From: of the email.
   Many email providers will either not accept email at all or will accept it but
   it will end up in the spam folder because the From: of the email is going to 
   make it look like spam if you are using a shared-hosting provider like a Bluehost
   or a Hostgator or something like that.
 * In other words, if your website’s domain is thisismydomainname.com then you need
   the From: of your outgoing email to be [somerealemailaccount@thisismydomainname.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/somerealemailaccount@thisismydomainname.com?output_format=md)
   but that’s not going to be what it is on Bluehost or Hostgator or any shared-
   hosting provider.
 * To fix that, you can install the Postman SMTP plugin from Jason Hendriks. That’s
   what most people on here do when they realize that some of the outgoing mail 
   is not arriving (Yahoo mail will block it, so you can use a Yahoo mail account
   to test with and see if it shows up or not). If you don’t want to use Postman
   SMTP then you can use a plugin called Custom Sender For Email Before Download
   which allows you to type in the From: for EBD’s outgoing emails (and that’s all
   it does). Note that if you use that plugin, then you may have to put that From:
   value back in there every time you resave your EBD settings (at least for me,
   it wipes out that value every time I resave EBD settings and I have to go put
   it back in there).
 * So, generally that’s going to fix everything. However, if you continue to have
   problems getting email into the Inbox rather than the Spam folder, then you need
   to look into doing some of the anti-spam stuff like setting your SPF, DomainKeys,
   DMARC, etc — that will take some time & research on your part.
 *  Thread Starter [sorted-it](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorted-it/)
 * (@sorted-it)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/#post-7128894)
 * Thanks for a very full response!
 * You are correct – many of the emails EBD is sending out are ending up in the 
   user’s spam folder or not showing up at all.
 * I have installed Postman SMTP and it certainly does help.
 * I have also set the SPF record in my DNS.
 * I am on shared hosting which does not allow DKIM.
 * My host suggested I check my emails at [https://www.mail-tester.com/](https://www.mail-tester.com/)
   and this is where I picked up the MIME/Multi-part idea as it is one way to reduce
   your spam ‘score’.
 * Thanks again for your help.
 *  [dtynan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtynan/)
 * (@dtynan)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/#post-7128921)
 * Good, sounds like you’ve made some good progress.
 * The content of your message does make a difference (of course) as to whether 
   the receiver’s email provider thinks it’s spam or not. The default email EBD 
   sends out is pretty spartan, but it does get through to the Inbox as long as 
   the From: is good (and having SPF helps).
 * On the From:, make sure you not only have it using your domain name, but also
   a real actual email account (go make one in your hosting provider cpanel if you
   need to). In other words, if it comes from [yourfiles@whateverdomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/yourfiles@whateverdomain.com?output_format=md)
   then someone should be able to send an email to [yourfiles@whateverdomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/yourfiles@whateverdomain.com?output_format=md)
   and it actually appears in some inbox somewhere rather than rejecting.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mime/#post-7128921)
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