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My mails using php mail() are going to the junk mail folder - why?
<?php
ob_start();
session_start();
//define the receiver of the email
$from='mrashidap#gmail.com';
$to = 'mrashidap#gmail.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'inform me please, when u receive this mail';
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
#Now We Can Use HTML Tags
$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($from). "\r\n";
$headers .= "Organization: appstribes\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".($from) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".($from) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority:3 \r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: high\r\n";
$msg = '<html><body>';
$msg .= '<p>Dear Sir/Madam</p><br/>';
$msg .= '<p><strong>GOOD DAY..!!!</strong></p>';
$msg .= '<p>Thank you for contacting Keita Customer Service. We regret any inconvenience you have experienced. Your request has been received, and a ticket has been created for you with,</p>';
$msg .= '<p><strong>Reference ID : khd004</strong></p>';
$msg .= '<p>Our team is looking into your request and you can expect next to be contacted with either an answer to your question(s) or a solution to the issue(s) raised. Our expected time-frames to respond will vary according to the severity or complexity of the matter being addressed and volume of contacts reaching us. However we assure you that we are working to get back to you as fast as possible and to properly address your questions and concern.</p>';
$msg .= '<p>Regards,</p>';
$msg .= '<p>Keita IT Team</p><br/>';
$msg .= '</body></html>';
$message=$msg;
//send the email
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
Most of the mails are going to junk. However mail sending to gmail are getting in inbox itself.
Your script claims this email is sent from gmail, which is not true
Not clear whether your server signs emails with DKIM or not, does it have SPF or not
Server may be graylisted
Google may not designate your domain as a permitted sender
Any of these reasons may lead to considering your emails as spam.
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I am using this code for my contact form in a html website but mail is not coming in Gmail Inbox.
Can any one help me i am trying to solve this issue but i don't have any guide.
<?php
session_cache_limiter( 'nocache' );
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject']; // Subject of your email
$to = "iamuser#gmail.com"; //Recipient's E-mail
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: " . $_REQUEST['name'].'<'.$_REQUEST['email'] .'>'. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$message = 'Name: ' . $_REQUEST['name'] . "<br>";
$message .= 'Company: ' . $_REQUEST['company'] . "<br>";
$message .= $_REQUEST['message'];
if (#mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
// Transfer the value 'sent' to ajax function for showing success message.
echo 'sent';
// header('Location: ../index.html');
}
else
{
// Transfer the value 'failed' to ajax function for showing error message.
echo 'failed';
}
?>
There are some problem in setting the header.
And most important is that you need to define the correct and valid Email Id in the From section because google generally used to validate the domain, the mail coming from.
If it is not white-listed at google end then it wills end the mail to Spam automatically, that is happening now as I think.
The problem is simple that the PHP-Mail function is not using a well configured SMTP Server.
Nowadays Email-Clients and Servers perform massive checks on the emails sending server, like Reverse-DNS-Lookups, Graylisting and whatevs. All this tests will fail with the php mail() function. If you are using a dynamic ip, its even worse.Use the PHPMailer-Class and configure it to use smtp-auth along with a well configured, dedicated SMTP Server (either a local one, or a remote one) and your problems are
You can try the below code.
$headers = "From: myplace#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: myplace2#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: myplace#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: sombodyelse#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "BCC: hidden#example.com\r\n";
Reference Link.
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailerPHPMailer/PHPMailerPHPMailer
There is another code you can try:
function mail_attachment($filename, $path, $mailto, $from_mail, $from_name, $replyto, $subject, $message) {
$file = $path.$filename;
$file_size = filesize($file);
$handle = fopen($file, "r");
$content = fread($handle, $file_size);
fclose($handle);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
$uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
$header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";
$header .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
$header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type:text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$header .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
$header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n";
// use different content types here$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
$header .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
$header .= "--".$uid."--";
if (mail($mailto, $subject, "", $header)) {echo "mail send ... OK";
// or use booleans here} else {echo "mail send ... ERROR!";
}
}
If you are developing this program in local server. The emails will not be sent to your gmail account.
If you want to test your code on a local machine please install Test Mail Server Tool.
No email will be delivered while running on local machine but you will get an idea how the email will look like.
When you run the same on web hosting server, the email will be delivered to the email id specified in $to field.
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I am trying to use php mail() function on my new web server(linux based server) for my website. The issue is, emails are not sending to domain email addresses like some1#domain.com but its working fine for gmail, yahoo. I don't know what is the issue on it?. please give me suggestions or advice how to solve this issue. I want to send emails to domain-based email addresses.
my code is
//$to = $_POST['femail'];
$to = "<toadd#domain.com>";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>".$subject."</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Registration request from site</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Project Requested</td>
<td>".$project."</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>";
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <info#domain.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: <some#domain.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' .PHP_VERSION. "\r\n";
#mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
I have faced the same issue..after a talk with hosting service provider I came to know that either sender or receiver's email id should be of the hosting domain id like if you have a site test.com either sender or receiver should have #test.com so you may do the same or talk to your hosting service provider.
$to = "toadd#domain.com"; //to address
$subject ="Your Subject";
$message = "Your message";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: info#domain.com' . "\r\n"; //from address
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) )
{
echo "Mail sent successfully";
}
else
{
echo "failed to send mail";
}
so on my server I tried running:
mail('my#email.com', 'asdf', 'asklfdjksalfdsdaf I know I I know I');
and PHP sent the mail perfectly....but then when I changed the message to
mail('my#email.com', 'asdf', 'hahahahaa');
it did NOT send the email to me....
what can possibly cause this? the only thing that's different is the message body...I am completely baffled...
Here's the way I send messages with php and avoid sending to spam folder:
<?php
$to = "test#test.com";
$subject = "Test Email";
$message = "Test Email";
// normal headers
$num = md5(time());
$headers = "From: Mailer <mailer#test.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ";
$headers .= "boundary=".$num."\r\n";
$headers .= "--$num\r\n";
// This two steps to help avoid spam
$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()." TheSystem#".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\r\n";
// With message
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";
$headers .= "".$message."\n";
$headers .= "--".$num."\n";
#mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
You should check your spam filter. It is possible that it is catching the message as being too short or not having enough discernible words, or any one of the other hundred things they'll check for.
If it is the spam filter, another thing that will help is adding different headers to help validate the email. Sometimes simply adding a realistic FROM in the headers can allow it through a spam filter. There's a default FROM set, usually in your php.ini but if it's some system generated name then filters can flag it.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )
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PHP: How to avoid a system generated e-mail going into spam?
How to send 100.000 emails weekly?
I am using the following script to send mail
$to = 'name#test.com' . ', ';
$to .= 'name2#test.com';
$subject = 'Green apple';
$message = 'Enquiry posted by test ';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Green Apple <info#greenappleme.com>' . "\r\n";
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "mail send successfully";
}
else
echo "mail can't send";
When I use this script to some servers, the mail is going to spam. But in some servers, it is going to the Inbox as desired.
How can I prevent email going to spam?
To prevent an email going into spam, don't send with mail from PHP. Send it with SMTP from your server, you can use PHP to connect to SMTP and submit the message. You will then need to set the SPF records on your server, and reverse DNS records with whoever your IP address comes from. If you do these three things then you'll be on the whitelist and all your emails will go into the inbox everywhere, assuming you don't abuse the privilege and get put on a blacklist.
So: send using SMTP, research SPF records and reverse DNS.
You won't be able to do this unless you have a dedicated server with dedicated IP for the domain from which you are sending the email from.
Be sure to set the RETURN PATH as the optional 5th parameter to the mail() function.
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, '-finfo#greenappleme.com'))
TO send ur majority mail in inbox set below headers and dont use test like keywords in your subject line
$headers = "From: My site<noreply#example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: info#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: info#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Drupal\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
ok, so I put together a very basic mail function and while testing this, I used a couple of email accounts, one my google account and the other my work account. I get all emails at the google account, but not to those pointing at my work. I'm thinking that could be because they have been caught up with the anti-spam software. Any ideas on how can I develop the mail function to avoid being caught on with spam software?
Here is a copy of my mail function
$to = 'account#gmail.com';
$subject = 'The subject';
$message = 'Hello,'."\n";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers = 'From: me#mycompnay.com' . "\r\n" .
'CC: anotherone#mycompany.com' . "\r\n";
$mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if($mail_sent) {
header("location:newlocation.php");
}
}
A lot of times this has less to do with PHP's mail() function and much more to do with the configuration of your mail transport agent. A lot of mail servers will bounce messages they assume are from spammers (i.e. unconfigured/misconfigured senders) before they even get passed to a spam filter.
If you check your MTA's logs you'll probably find some bounce messages the likes of, "Mail from this server not allowed, see blacklist info at [insert url].
Spam filters use a lot of different methods to determine if the mail coming in is actually spam or not.
Here are a few things that I would suggest:
Descriptive subject line
Descriptive message, careful with HTML and other rich content inside the body as sometimes spam filters will pick up on it as an "advertisement".
Full complete headers with realistic information in there as much as possible.
Try experimenting with different combination's and see if you can get one through to your work. The good thing is that your google account got the e-mail so you know its not an server side issue locally.
you probably need to format your headers and content properly. boundaries are missing.
Here's one simple function with HTML formatting mail:
<?php
function html_mail($i){
$to = $i['to'];
$to_name = $i['to-name'];
$subject = $i['subject'];
$html_message = $i['message'];
$from = $i['from'];
$from_name = $i['from-name'];
$reply_to = $i['reply-to'];
$reply_to_name = $i['reply-to-name'];
if(!$to || !validate::email($to)){return false;}
$email_message = '';
$email_subject = $subject;$email_txt = $html_message;
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$email_to = ($to_name ? $to_name.'<'.$to.'>':$to);
$headers = "From: ".($from_name!='' ? $from_name.'<'.$from.'>':$from)."\n";
if($reply_to){
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".($reply_to_name ? $reply_to_name.'<'.$reply_to.'>':$reply_to)."\n";
}
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n";
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
$email_message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n";
$email_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$email_message .= $email_txt;
$email_message .= "\n\n";
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
$email_message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n";
$email_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$email_message .= trim(strip_tags(str_replace(array('<br/>','<br />','<br/>'),"\r\n",$email_txt)));
$email_message .= "\n\n";
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}--";
$ok = #mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
return $ok;
}
?>
when you have a properly formatted mail, you probably will be able to by pass the filters.
Spam determination is entirely determined by the software that's running the spam heuristics. You would have to look into the anti-spam software that your company uses and see why it's being caught as spam. More often than not it has to do with your mail server set up. A key factor that a lot of software uses is a valid reverse DNS entry, so you could look into that.
You have to realize that if there was an easy way around anti-spam software catching your email as spam just by modifying a few headers, then anti-spam software would be entirely useless, since the spammers would know those methods as well.
Adding a valid 'from' header would be the first thing to do, I think.
and thank you very much for all your suggestions. I found the answer on this post
How to change envelope from address using PHP mail?
It worked.
L.