Cannot sent to gmail account using mail() function - php

Hi can anyone help why can't I send email to a gmail account.I have been doing change password module and to confirm the password i will send the confirmation link to my clients email account.Many have contact me that they have not receive any emails. Here's my code:
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$from;
mail($sendmail_recipient_email, $sendmail_subject, $sendmail_message, $headers);

Well for one, your $headers are just going to be
"From: ".$from;
because you're not using a concatenation operator. Should be:
$headers .= "From: ".$from;
note the .=
EDIT
The OP corrected the code in the question, so I'll modify my answer. There are LOTS of reasons that gmail might be rejecting your emails, but a good first step would be to remove the \r line-break modifiers. \n should suffice, and lots of folks seem to have solved this exact issue (specific rejection by Gmail) by only using new-line breaks and excluding return breaks.

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HTML e-mail in outlook using PHP mail() function

I am keep getting the source code in outlook 2013. I have read a lot of stackoverflow questions, tried all the recommended solutions, none of the helped tho.
here is my php
$test1 = "test string";
// Retrieve the email template required
$message = file_get_contents('email-templates/template1.html');
// Replace the % with the actual information
$message = str_replace('%test1%', $test1, $message);
//echo $message;
$to = 'test#gmail.com';
$email_subject = "test";
$email_body = $message;
$headers = "From: $to\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
using only \n instead of \r\n, and took care of the order (this one was presented), but still working on gmail, phone, bot does not in Outlook.
any more suggestions?
I suggest that rather trying to re-invent (or fix) the wheel that you use PHPMailer. I've been using it for years to send HTML emails that render properly in Outlook.
your code looks a lot like the example in the manpage http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
try ending your lines with \r\n (CR-LF) not just newlines, who knows
You can back up a step, copy-and-paste the example from php.net and see whether the problem is really on the Outlook side. You can also pull up html emails from your inbox, and see what they're doing different (try to copy-and-paste send a copy of a good html email from within php)
As to reinventing the wheel, if mail() predates PHPMailer, arguably it's the latter that did the reinventing...
the solution was
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" ;
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";

Email going to SPAM in yahoo and URL not working

I write a script to send email from my website. I recieve email in inbox in gmail, outlook and hotmail but in yahoo, its going to SPAM folder and also URL in not working in yahoo. Whats wrong in my code,
Header
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \r\n";
$headers .= "From: $Name <$Email> \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $Email\r\n";
Message with URL
$message.= "<a href='https://www.google.com'>Click here</a>";
PHP-Mail function is not uses a well configured SMTP Server so may be this is a reason or try to Use the PHPMailer-Class. or you need to try with full headers
Also links not working cause your mail in spam. need to move in inbox and see.
http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/avoid-spam-filters-with-php-mail-emails/
For more info follow:- sending email via php mail function goes to spam

Sent mail from php goes into spam folder [duplicate]

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I used this tutorial for sending mail :
http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/avoid-spam-filters-with-php-mail-emails/
My code looks like this :
$headers .= "Reply-To: The Sender <sender#sender.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: The Sender <sender#sender.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: The Sender <senter#sender.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Organization: Sender Organization\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n"
mail("recipient#recipient.com", "Message", "A simple message.", $headers);
I am using localhost(MAMP PRO) for sending mail.
But mail goes to spam folder.How to send mail which goes to inbox.Please guys help me out from this,i spend a lot of time on it.
Which folder an email goes into depends mostly on the domain & ipaddress from which the email is coming from and the email service provider. If your domain/ip is trusted by the service provider it will not be spammed.
Also, after setting a few emails as "Not Spam" from that domain, your email service will no longer spam the emails
there are more than one reason ur email goes to spam ...
1 - make sure that the "from email" is actually the email u are sending the emails from .. i mean dont use any other false "from Email"
2- you have to keep the message body simple as possible . dont use so much html tags and css experssions , and also try to use tables

php mail() doesnt work for gmail and hotmail

I am trying to send new system generated password using mail() in php. The thing is I am able to send it to yahoo but when I use gmail or hotmail I dont receive any emails although the function returns true. Following is the function:
if(mail($to,$subject,$body))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
It probably ends up in the spam folder look there. If its there make sure your email headers are perfect.
You could look into librairies for what you want to achieve. Zend_Mail has everything you could need to connect to gmail and others.
If you are getting the mail successfully through yahoo, you should also post the headers that are coming through from yahoo here in the question. My bet is you will need to include a "from field" also to get through on hotmail, gmail, etc...
Your problem might be the antispam filters. E-mails sent from PHP are usually marked as spam by the mail servers and end up deleted or in the spam can.
You can Google for "php mail spam" to get some hints of how to work around this issue.
Maybe you're on a shared server and the IP is banned/blocked due to spamming by other users (websites) of your server.
Try adding SPF records.
Ensure that your envelope-FROM (a.k.a. return path) is set to a valid email address that you have access to. If you're not seeing the message in the spam folders, it should be getting bounced; the bounce message may offer a clue as to why the mail is not getting through.
I would try to include your own headers in your mail function
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Date: ". date('r'). " \r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path:youremail#domain.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Errors-To:youremail#domain.com\r\n";
$headers .= "From:youremail#domain.com <youremail#domain.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to:youremail#domain.com \r\n";
$headers .= "Organization: YourOrg \r\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender:youremail#domain.com \r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3 \r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal \r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
Try checking if your mailserver ip is blacklisted anywhere?
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
If not, try harder with the headers that are being sent with the mail.

Required Mail Headers

I have a website in which I send a confirmation mail as part of the registration process.
Some time ago, I had some troubles with the mails I sent since I used no headers (PHP mail function).
Once I put some headers, I've gotten more responses from users, but I suspect that not every message reaches its destination.
How can I be sure that the messages reach their destination?
Which are the headers that can be considered a 'must'?
This is the code of my SendMail function
mail($to,
$subject,
$message,
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowder\n".
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n".
"Message-Id: <" . md5(uniqid(microtime())) . "#mysite.com>\n".
"Return-Path: <admin#mysite.com>\n".
"X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\n".
"From: admin# mysite.com");
You should use external library for working with e-mails in php like PhpMailer , SwiftMailer or Zend_Mail. All your problems will go away.
The headers need a white space at the bottom to separate the header from main body.
Tools like Spam Assassin will give you a big mark down for that.
Also you should use \r\n as a line terminator instead of just \n
From PHP.net
Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n).
The headers seems quite good to me. The only glitch I see is an extra whitespace in the From header.
I'm sure you already checked it, but just in case ...
"From: admin# mysite.com");
should be (?)
"From: admin#mysite.com");
This is a working mail function I'm using for html mail and variable $return is defined to get error report from mail server in case of fail delivery.
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <'.$from.'>' . "\r\n";
$return = '-f'.$from;
#mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers, $return);
you can see more detail at here sugunan.com
The headers look ok, except for the details pointed by #Eineki. Also if you are using Windows you need to send the $to param in the form "user#mail.com" and not "Username ", because it may cause trouble, due to the way the mail() function is implemented on windows platform, the "to" address may be parsed incorrectly.
You should add a Date: header (its mandatory by RFC5322) and some mail-clients may assume January 1 1970 as an e-mail date if none is given (and it gets lost between all the other old messages).

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