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PHP mail function doesn't complete sending of e-mail
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sadly, I find myself in need of your help again...
I recently changed my hosting provider to Namecheap (like a month ago) and today I just noticed that I'm not receiving emails sent through the contact form on my site amelicakes.com.
The PHP code of this form hasn't changed and the contact form worked perfectly on my previous hosting provider.
PHP for the contact form is below:
<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit');
if(isset($_POST['email'])){
$mailTo = "ameli_cakes#abv.bg";
$subject = "mail from web";
$body = "New message from web
<br><br>
FROM: ".$_POST['email']."<br>
NAME: ".$_POST['name']."<br>
SUBJECT: ".$_POST['subject']."<br>
COMMENTS: ".$_POST['message']."<br>";
$headers = "To: Ameli Cakes <".$mailTo.">\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Contact Form <contact#amelicakes.com>\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/HTML; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'. "\n\r\n";
//envio destinatario
$mail_success = mail($mailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
}
?>
After talking with a Namecheap representative, they told me that "PHP debugging is out of their scope" and to check this link.
Guys... I tried but I have no idea what I'm doing, and before making my PHP form unusable I decided to revert back to the original version and ask for help here.
I think I need to send these emails to an email account hosted in their servers so I created contact#amelicakes.com but I don't know how to continue.
Whatever help you can provide would be greatly appreciated, keep in mind that my PHP knowledge is very limited.
Thanks in advance to whoever is reading this!
PS: Please do not close this as duplicate, I have checked the alternatives and I do not understand how they apply to my case, the code seems different.
In order to avoid issues related to spam it is possible to use in FROM
field only email hosted at our servers
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9239/31/how-to-configure-contact-form-hosted-with-us.
You're allowing the from email to be whatever the client inputs which is an email most likely not held on the namecheap servers. You need to make sure that where $_POST['email'] is, there is an email that is on your namecheap account. So, for example:
$headers .= "From: Contact Form <contact#amelicakes.com>\r\n";
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How do I prevent mails sent through PHP mail() from going to spam? [duplicate]
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So a company I am helping out has outlook for their mail. Unfortunately, outlook seems to be very inflexible on how I can set up emails. I have added multiple domains to the outlook admin center for our multiple different sites. However, it will not let me create anything useful with the new domains.
For instance, we have "information#ourMainDomain.com" set up as an account.
I tried to create an alias on this account for "information#aSecondaryDomain.com" but then outlook gives me an error saying "information#ourMainDomain.com" already exists. Evidently you cannot use the same username even with different domains.
Fine. So i tried to create a shared mailbox - same issue. information#aSecondaryDomain.com is not allowed, because information#ourMainDomain.com exists... getting frustrating now!
So, after experimenting, trying everything, and spending 2 hours on the phone with outlook support that got me no where, i opted for my own route:
I created a Distribution Group called information#aSecondaryDomain.com, told this that senders outside the organization can send to it, added all the people that need to be involved, and gave them all send access.
This allows us to send emails as info#aSecondaryDomain.com
It allows us to recieve them here as well.
Also, i can send from outside the organization, ie from my gmail i can send to this account and it comes through, Great!
The problem is when i use php for a contact form, it WILL NOT send to the distribution group. It is not going to junk that i can see, and mail trace doesnt show it ever coming in at all. If i change the send to address of mail function to one of our main emails with the organization it comes through. If i change it to send to my gmail it comes through. As soon as i set it to the address of the distribution group, it will not come through. I see no errors on the php, it thinks it sent... but it never does.
Does anyone have an ideas? Or has anyone done this before?
The code in question is very simple...
<?
$name = $_REQUEST["name"];
$email = $_REQUEST["email"];
$subject = $_REQUEST["subject"];
$msg = $_REQUEST["msg"];
$to = "information#aSecondaryDomain.org";
if (isset($email) && isset($name) && isset($msg)) {
$email_subject = "$name sent you a message";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$name." <".$to.">\r\n"."Reply-To: ".$to."\r\n" ;
$msg = "From: $name<br/> Email: $email <br/> Subject: $subject <br/> Message: $msg";
$mail = mail($to, $email_subject, $msg, $headers);
if($mail)
{
echo 'success';
}
else
{
echo 'failed';
}
}
?>
EDIT: I have no tried PHPMailer... same reuslt - it will send to my regular work address, and my personal, but not to the distribution group.
I'm trying to send e-mail using PHP. I took a piece of code that I have been using earlier, but it doesn't work anymore. I figure out the problem was coming from the subject.
When my subject is "test", the mail is sent, but when my subject is anything else with for example capital letters, like "Test", it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure this is a quick fix, but I can't find the answer.
Here is my code.
In index.php
$subject= 'test';
$message = implode("\n" , $_SESSION['data']);
mail_html($subject, $message, $email);
In functions.php
function mail_html ( string $subject, string $message, string $receiver) {
$headers = 'From: Template <me#me.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8';
mail($receiver, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
Thank you everyone for helping me. I feel stupid getting blocked by things like that.
Sending E-Mails is a very difficult process. So you can't send E-Mails so easy from your Computer or Server if you don't have alle the common SPAM prevention mechanisms enabled.
So when you don't a Reverse-DNS entry and you send an Email with "Test" you should not wonder if the emails can't send to the other site. So Take a look at the SPF-System, Reverse-DNS and generic names for servers (not working for some providers). Then you can send some E-Mails.
To find some problems check your mail log /var/log/mail.log.
When you try to prevent that problems use an SMTP account from your provider and send that E-Mails over SMTP.
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How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam?
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I know that there are many similar questions on this site, but none of them helped me.
I have the following PHP code:
<?php
$to = "mymail#inbox.com";
$from = "no-reply#heygee.com";
$subject = "Confirm your registration!";
$message = "Please follow this link to confirm your registration: www.bit.ly/32106";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: HeyGee! <no-reply#heygee.com>" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To: mymail#inbox.com" . "\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$ok = #mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f " . $from);
?>
Let's say mymail#inbox.com is my test e-mail. Whenever I send the mail to my address, I always receive the mail in my Spam folder. Why is that? Are there any corrections or tricks to be made to prevent the mail from arriving in Spam?
Thanks.
The reason why your mail is being sent to Spam folder is either because of the content of your email or that the receiving side is not able to verify if the email actually came from the stated domain in the from address, i.e., if the sender (you) are authorized to send email on behalf of heygee.com.
Content part is easy to correct. You need to avoid bad grammar, ambiguous links (e.g links which say google.com but point to example.com), etc. Your message should be well worded (exclude those words frequently found in spam mails), and preferably include an unsubscribe link as well (if sent to a mailing list).
Now comes the second and difficult part. The domain that you are writing in your from address should be the same domain from which you are executing this mail script or should be authorized by this domain's TXT records to send mail on its behalf. The simplest way to go about this would be (provided you have DNS access to the sending domain name) to add a TXT SPF record permitting the IP of the server your script resides on to send mail on its behalf.
Example SPF record:
"v=spf1 ip6:1080::8:800:200C:417A/96 -all"
The above record means Allow any IPv6 address between 1080::8:800:0000:0000 and 1080::8:800:FFFF:FFFF.
Checkout:
SPF (Wikipedia)
Also, you may have a look here http://www.openspf.org/
Now if you don't have DNS access, then simply change the domain name of the from address to the domain name of the server and it should fix it.
Hope it helps.
This is not related to your programming by itself. Filtering e-mail as spam is done on the client side and there is nothing you can change about that (if it were, millions of spammers would be doing it)
The problem you have is that your e-mail looks like spam. Try to write a better e-mail, with a body longer than 1 line. I would also remove the exclamation mark from the subject; that's also something that makes it look like spam.
If your spam detection system gives you detailed information on why it was labeled as spam (SpamAssassin can do that depending on how it is configured), then use that information to fix the e-mail that you send.
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Gmail and Hotmail marked as spam
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Closed 8 years ago.
My emails that are send by mail() are getting directly into the spam box, tested with GMAIL and HOTMAIL.
So:
I have dedicated server
My server ip is not listed on any blacklists
This is my code:
function send_email($recipient, $sender, $subject, $email_body){
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$sender;
mail($recipient,$subject,$email_body,$headers);
}
$from = 'info#domain.com';
$subject = 'subject';
$email_body = '<h1 style="text-align:center;">Title</h1><p>Message</p>';
send_email($userbday['email'], $from, $subject, $email_body);
Any thoughts?
Try to setup an SPF record for your domain.
Also
Email is serious business.
Try transactional email service providers
It may be that your email looks exactly as spam. It sometimes happens...
All my applications sends email - depending on how the client prepare the email templates - some are treated as spam almost instantly, some not.
Setting SPF Record can help, but also check (and use) some blacklist emails for your own good - like people who dont want to receive your emila should never be bothered again as they can trigger your server to be in the black lists (for example spamcop).
I am creating a small company, and would like to send out emails to my clients once they have signed up for my service to activate their accounts. I am currently using PHP's mail() function, however I am worried that my emails are being filtered out by spam filters. Is there a better way to go about this?
$email = 'XZY Client Email address # somedomain.com';
$emailSubject = "Welcome to XYZ Service!";
$to = $email;
$subject .= "".$emailSubject."";
$headers .= "From: no-reply#XYZService.com\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: php";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$message = "<html><body>";
$message .= "Welcome to XYZ Service! \n Activate your account by clicking the following link: link...";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Is there a way to authenticate these emails so that my clients know that they are from my actual service? Thank you in advance!
You can try to get your mail server white listed by some of the major postmasters (AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.).
I am not sure if this is what you want, but you can setup a mail server to handle all your emails.
Try using that mail server for sending emails and see if they are still filtered or not.
BTW, setting up a mail server on *nix systems is free and worth giving a try.
I have a simple arcade site that people from my highschool use and for quite a while I've been using the method that you showed. I didn't look at my code to verify that they're identical, but they look fairly close and mine works with gmail and all other big name services I've ran into!
Just remember that some hosting companies limit the amount of PHP mail that can be sent per minute. Mine only allows 9 per minute, I know I've gotten suspended a few times on accident while running test mail sends, haha.