i am facing a problem of delivering email to hotmail inbox.
my email is marked as spam and it is delivered to hotmail spam folder.
My Code
<?php
$header = "Reply-To: info <info#appleparking.co.uk>\r\n";
$header .= "Return-Path: info <info#appleparking.co.uk>\r\n";
$header .= "From: info <info#appleparking.co.uk>\r\n";
$header .= "Organization: Mobit Solutions\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n";
if(mail("my_personal_email#hotmail.com", "Test Message", "testing",$header))
echo "email sent";
else
echo "email not sent";
?>
any help would be appreciated.
There is not much you can do from your PHP code. However your code seems to be ok.
Double check your SPF records in DNS. You can read more about SPF records here.
Also consider using Domain Keys
I'd use SwiftMailer or PHPMailer and nothing fancy (such as templates) to make sure emails are correctly delivered.
your script working fine for me, here are the results;
Some times web Host make problems like these, i suggest you to contact your web service provider for this issue. Best of Luck!
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I have made a password recovery option in my website using php mail function. It works with gmail and yahoo but when the email is hotmail it does not works, I tried many time. When I tried with my companies email (outlook) nothing happens. It only works with gmail and yahoo. What can be wrong with it. the code I am using is her below:
$email= "customer_email_address";
$head = "From: \"Pizza Hut Pakistan\" <no-reply#pizzahut.com.pk>\n";
$head .= "X-Mailer: RegFormPHP\n";
$head .= "Priority: urgent\n";
$head .= "Importance: High\n";
$head .= "Content-Language: en-us\n";
$head .= "Reply-To: <no-reply#pizzahut.com.pk>\n";
$head .= "Organization: \"Pizza Hut Pakistan\"\n";
$head .= "Content-Type: text/html\r\n";
$msg = 'Click the link below to proceed <br><br>';
$msg .= 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/root_folder/forgotlink.php?id='.$unique_code_of_user;
mail($email, "website account password recovery", $msg, $head);
every thing is cool with gmail and yahoo. but..... nothing works with others....
Thanks
Hotmail is probably rejecting your emails thinking it's spam.
Hotmail is known to be a PITA when it comes to emails... You can check if you have correct DKIM and SPF parameters, see if your server isn't blacklisted, or better yet, use a mailing provider like MailChimp, SendGrid or similar to be sure your emails are sended in best conditions.
You can try class.phpmailer.php. It works for Yahoo, Hotmail, GMail,
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..
I recently moved over to a dedicated server. I changed the nameservers on my domain and the new website is now working fantastically. However, automatic emails such as the newly registered confirmation email members are supposed to receive, etc. don't seem to be sending. Why might this be?
I know there are likely to be a wide range of potential causes but if anyone has any suggestions it'd be fantastic to hear them! I used Squirrel Mail to check a couple of the email accounts and both sending and receiving on the new dedicated server seems to be fine.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions! :-)
Stop php mail() being treated as spam mail
You must to add a needle headers:
Sample 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";
$headers .= "BCC: hidden#example.com\r\n";
if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) {
echo "The email has been sent!";
} else {
echo "The email has failed!";
}
?>
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, $headers);
Is there a way to authenticate these emails so that my clients know that they are from my actual service? Thank you in advance!
You can try to get your mail server white listed by some of the major postmasters (AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.).
I am not sure if this is what you want, but you can setup a mail server to handle all your emails.
Try using that mail server for sending emails and see if they are still filtered or not.
BTW, setting up a mail server on *nix systems is free and worth giving a try.
I have a simple arcade site that people from my highschool use and for quite a while I've been using the method that you showed. I didn't look at my code to verify that they're identical, but they look fairly close and mine works with gmail and all other big name services I've ran into!
Just remember that some hosting companies limit the amount of PHP mail that can be sent per minute. Mine only allows 9 per minute, I know I've gotten suspended a few times on accident while running test mail sends, haha.
I am trying to send new system generated password using mail() in php. The thing is I am able to send it to yahoo but when I use gmail or hotmail I dont receive any emails although the function returns true. Following is the function:
if(mail($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.