10 Tips to Keep Email Out of the Spam Folder

1. Be Compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act

If you are sending “any electronic mail message, the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service,” then you must comply with the following 7 main requirements (or face penalties up to $16,000) [5]:

1. Don’t use false or misleading header information
2. Don’t use deceptive subject lines
3. Identify the message as an ad
4. Tell recipients where you’re located
5. Tell recipients how to opt-out of receiving future email from you
6. Honor opt-out requests promptly
7. Monitor what others are doing on your behalf

If your email contains only transactional emails or relationship content, then you are exempt from these rules; however, you must still not include false or misleading routing information.
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Script to daily email APF status

You are running APF on your server, but sometimes you think “is APF running fine ?”
This script sends you an email with APF satus.

Log in to your server as root

Create the script:
nano apfstatus.sh

Put this on the file:
#!/bin/bash

tail -200 /var/log/apf_log | mail -s "APF Status" youemail@domain.com

Save and Exit
Ctrl+X and Y
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