How to make sure your emails dont land in SPAM folder

One of the biggest problems with our clients is to ensure that the legitimate emails they send out to their users/ customers do not end up in the SPAM folder. To ensure that as a website administrator you need to follow the bext practices guidelines provided by Yahoo and Google.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81126

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/basics-55.html;_ylt=Ahc6x60yB8n8JzvfVztu4QsIJHdG

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

One of my PHP app used to send out SMS alerts using HTTP based SMS Gateway. Everything was working fine till last week when the SMS stopped coming. On running a stand alone PHP page using the same function to send SMS as the page in the application, got this error -

"Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration"

PHP 5.3 and MySQL timeouts

On my dev machine, WinXP SP3, I had PHP 5.2 configured with IIS 5.1 and MySQL 5. Recently upgraded to PHP 5.3  and whooops.. most of my applications stop working.. :?  first the ISAPI was discontinued so I had to go the FastCGI way but for some reason I just could not make it work. The browser will just offer me to download/ save the file. As I was in a hurry I thought $#@*& IIS, lets try Apache. Installed and configured Apache with PHP and the phpinfo page works fine but pages with MySQL connection will still not load... after wasting sometime trying to figure out what was wrong, went to the doorstep of all knowing Google.. and found this

Mime Type

Many a times I need to lookup the correct Mime type so for reference purpose, below is a list:

Mime Types By File Extension