I wrote a PHP script to send emails.
My script is like this:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: abc#yahoo.com' . "\r\n";
// Email Variables
$toUser = "someone#yahoo.com"; // recipient
$subject = "testing"; // subject
$body = "<html><body><p>
Example of including an image via html \<img\> tag:
<br>
<img src='../images/profile.jpg'>
<br>
My new picture
<br></p></body></html>"; // content
if (mail($toUser,$subject,$body,$headers)) {
echo "sent";
} else {
echo "failed";
}
Well, of course I use a valid email address for sender and receiver. I did receive the email, but it goes to junk mail. So I went for google research. Is it because of my "header" script problem? If it isn't, then what could cause my script to send a junk mail? Any solution?
Please try this:
$headers ="From:<$from>\n";
$headers.="MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers.="Content-type: text/html; charset=iso 8859-1";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers,"-f$from");
Perhaps the problem is that yahoo uses domainkeys verification, which will likely fail for your application given that the mail is not actually coming from yahoo's servers.
When I've once had a similar problem I looked at the headers and found out that my host uses SpamAssassin. So I googled for 'SpamAssassin score' and found a multitude of information on how to incorrectly (and thus correctly) form an email.
For example: SpamAssassin score list
1. Check mail content
As others have hinted it is probably marked as spam because your mail looks like spam.
I am not sure if you the script that you have posted is the actual one that you are testing.
If it has the actual mail body & headers, then running this message through a standard installation of SpamAssassin gives it a spam score of 4.9
X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04,
HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no
version=3.2.5
Since the email body has only HTML it has a greater chance of being handled with suspect by most anti-spam solutions.
2. Mail server's IP
Another aspect worth checking will be the IP address of your mail server. Any mail originating from dynamic IP addresses will potentially be considered as SPAM.
3. Blocklists
Also check if your IP address is listed in one of the block lists. To start with please check your IP address with http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso.
Use mxtoolbox.com to check the servers IP to be blacklisted or not. As well this website can help you with a couple of email related checks.
Of course there are a long list of checks running inside spam filters. As already suggested, check the email headers for details about the spam filters rating of the spam email.
Hope that helps!
**This Works Perfectly fine for me**
$to="reciever#reciever.com";
$subject="This is Your Message";
$from = 'Sender <noreply#sender.com>';
$body='Hi '.$name.', <br/><br>Now You can See Yor main in inbox';
$headers = "From: " .($from) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".($from) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".($from) . "\r\n";;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
I was having the same problem:
The problem is that when you specify content-type before the "From:" part , the mail comes as a spam.
But if you specify "From:" before the content part it comes as a normal mail and makes you smile and curious.
As schnalle said, one problem surely is that the smtp server that you use to send the email and the one thet you specify as From, is different.. the from's domain whould be the same that the server youre running on.
So, you can use the yahoo server to send the email (check if they allow the smtp remote connection, but i guess they do) connecting by smtp, and this will solve 1 problem.
Another one is the html contents without the alternative plain text contents, but, this one is less important.
I suggest you phpMailer, free and open-source php class to send email, easly to use (i use it event o send mail through gmail server)
On your server try to sort your SPF (Sender Policy Framework, Google for SPF record) record out.
Make sure you send your e-mails from an existing account on your server/domain.
Make sure you have the reply-to address in your header.
These are the basic things you can try.
if your website domain is mydomain.com then in From headers make sure to use someone#mydomain.com
Remove the Content-type: text/html and add $headers .= "X-Priority: 2\nX-MSmail-Priority: high"; to get rid of Spam. This method has been tried and tested.
the problem is, the server you're sending the mail from is not a yahoo server. most spam filters check if they match, otherwise it would (and is - or was) possible to easily fake the sender. ever wondered why you get spam from bill.gates AT microsoft.com or your own mail address?
You've got two solutions:
use Yahoo's SMTP using abc#yahoo.com credentials to send mail from abc#yahoo.com;
use other from, with your own domain;
You can try the mail class and test file that I have created here. I have tested the files and can send emails to my hotmail and gmail under a different mail name. The main reason why the emails are mark as junk is because the structure (both header and message) is not correctly done. In most cases, it is the line feed that is causing the problem.
I can use it to send mail with attachments to Gmail. However, the attachments dont work for hotmail. Hope this helps =)
You can check the files here..
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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.
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.
I have a page that I set up in php to send newsletters to emails who sign up on my website. The code worked just fine when I sent it to 30 emails the other day. Everyone received the email newsletter. Two new people signed up and now when I try to send one, it goes through as if it sent without any errors in the code, but no one ever receives the newsletter.
Would it have anything to do with an invalid email address that stops it from working? As if one of the new ones is not valid and it shuts it down? I did nothing to change the code from when it was working to the previous 30 emails. My hosting company allows over 250 emails per day, so that is not the problem at all.
$mailto = "members#example.com" ;
$headers = "From: chris#example.com \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: chris#example.com \r\n";
$headers .= "BCC: $emails \r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$from='members#example.com';
$subject="TEST";
$body='<html><body>';
$body.= "<table><tr><td>$content etc...</td></td> </body></html>";
if (mail($mailto,$subject,$body,$headers)) {
code... ; }
else {
code... ; }
What I would do, is use some SMTP server, say google, and PHPMailer, or anything similar. THis is probably the best solution for you too, because the usage of mail function in PHP might be a bit dangerous. Many mail servers think that these emails are spam, due to them not being sent by a known service.
At first, try finding out if the unreceived emails have landed in the spam folder.
If not, and if your time doe not allow a PHPMailer implementation, try sending the emails manually from a PHP snippet code, see what really happens.
Based on this line:
$headers .= "BCC: $emails \r\n";
you put all the recipients into one single header line.
This may fail for at least 3 reasons:
as soon as this line is longer that 998 characters, the message violates rfc2822 and so the mail server may reject it.
most SMTP servers have a limit on the number of recipients in a single message, so at some point this limit is going to be reached (30 recipients don't seem that much, though).
any serious syntax error in an email address may invalidate the whole line.
Also, it may help to know which SMTP server is used here. If you have access to the mail server logs, obviously you should check that, too.
As a workaround, you may want to loop through your list of subscriber and send one different message to each subscriber in the To field and not use Bcc at all. This is also better to get through spam filters, anyway.
Okay, I have searched on the internet for answers- sadly to no avail. I'm trying to send mail using the PHP mail() function so members can follow the link to register. It works for Gmail, Yahoo!, but not for Hotmail. Please help meh!!!
<?php
$headers .= 'To: <kenny.XXX#hotmail.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <XXX#srv30.000webhost.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: XXX#srv30.000webhost.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: XXX#srv30.000webhost.com' . "\r\n";
$text="hello";
$text = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $text);
mail('Kenny Worden:<kenny.XXX#hotmail.com>','Leos Realm account verification!',$text,$headers);
?>
If this helps anyone:
SMTP : localhost(srv30.000webhost.com)
SMTP PORT: 25
Your code seems to be good. My guess is that there is something wrong at your servers end, check mail delivery logs or have your server admin look at them for you. Could be a routing/dns issue.
edit:
i just tried that script on my server and it works well. immediately got email on my hotmail address.
You're missing the string "-f <from address>" as the fifth parameter.
The PHP Manual points out that you need to supply this so that the MTA will send the correct "From" address on the envelope. Setting it in the headers isn't enough. This sort of inanity is why I dis-recommend mail() and point people towards php-mailer or similar.
(The "envelope" refers to the conversation an MTA has with another MTA in order to deliver email.)
code likes fine,
anything you do that makes it look like spam will block it from hotmail
try creating spf records for your domain, and even signatures
check your mail server is not blacklisted, this can cause problems
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/
As #staticsan recommends php-mailer or also http://swiftmailer.org/ are other options you can use try that might help
My website sends activation mails to new members using the php mail() function. I manage my email accounts using the google mail service (aspmx.googlemail.com). But unfortunately, Hotmail users receive the activation email in their unwanted folder.
I did some research and found out about SPF records (I can not use keys since I have limited control over my webserver). So how do I configure my SPF record?
I now have:
v=spf1 a mx a:mywebsite.net include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all
Would this be what I need?
EDIT:
I now used PHPMailer to connect to the google SMTP server. Hotmail no longer marks them as unwanted this way. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/)
PHP's mail() is probably not using smtp to send your emails. I would consider adding the appropriate headers and using a spam scorer to help your chances, or you could try and use smtp through google's mailservers (although I bet that is unlikely).
Here is a spam scorer:
http://www.contactology.com/check_mqs.php
Here is an example of some email headers, be sure to set your From header as its default probably isn't good for spam filters:
$headers = "From: My site<noreply#my_site.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: info#my_site.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: info#my_site.com\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Drupal\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers);
Inorder to utilize that SPF record you need to add it to your DNS Zone file.
Go to wherever you have your DNS registered and add a couple of TXT records.
They should look something like:
mywebsite.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:mywebsite.net include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all
"
mailserver.mywebsite.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:mywebsite.net include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all
"
There is a ton of great info over at http://www.openspf.org/
This will not guarantee that your message will get through the spam filters, but it will help.
The other thing todo is get "whitelisted" with the Hotmail team. It has been a while, but you essentially register your machine with a contact. This allows them a person to complain to directly when questionable material comes from your site. They tend to let more of your mail through after you get yourself "whitelisted".