you can send a status update to a facebook page you own by sending it to a cretin (secret) email address. this is described here:
http://www.facebook.com/help/pages/mobile
the problem is I cant make it work from php
function page_publish_by_mail($page_mail, $status){
$to = $page_mail;
$subject = $status;
$message = "";
$headers = "From: my#mail.address";
return mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
I can send mail to my email address and I can post by mail from my email address but I can't seem to post by mail from PHP.
I haven't tried to send to facebook mail before, however I feel like it is being filtered out due to lack of header information. Try adding some more header details.
I always send headers like this:
$headers = 'From: Your Name <youremail#domain.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
This is set up to send an html email, but you might try other content-types if that doesn't work.
It may be a good idea to look in the documentation and see if there are other headers that are required as well.
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I have a button to send a div as html to email on a website.
I would like to avoid rebuilding the html using just the variables associated but I think about the risk of doing this as someone could send anything to my php script.
Also is it enough to remove <script> tags ?
This is how I get and send the email:
$subject = 'Some title';
$message = $html_mail;
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To: '. $to . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: My name <'.$admin_mail.'>' . "\r\n";
$response = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Almost all the email clients such as gmail, yahoo, outlook, thunderbird, mail etc do not run javascript at all. Javascript and other scripts are disabled by default. So <script> tags are not at all security threat. However, abusive language or images that users might embed in HTML emails can be a serious issue in your case if it is not handled appropriately. If you think that your users are sophisticated and it is not the case then there are no worries.
i am having a issue with sending emails with cronjobs.
actually i need to send email to all the recently joined users
and so the emails are something like $to='acx1#xyz.com,acx2#xyz.com,acx3#xyz.com';
here i need to send the mail to all the receipts but not to let them know that i have sent this mail to all these persons in receipt basically BCC them
but the problem is that if i put the $to into BCC then what should i put in to function of mail
if to is empty then it may be spamed
i want to send this mail to all the receipts but when they check the headers they should see their email only
and one more issue please let me know if i am using correct headers ?
because sometimes my email is spammed by gmail
$from='tests.com';
$to='contact#test.com';
$message="<body> some html data with inline css </body>"
$subject="Hii this is test";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $from <contact#test.com>" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: contact#test.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'BCC: acx1#xyz.com,acx2#xyz.com,acx3#xyz.com' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
My website runs the following code: (I BCC myself so that I have a copy of all the emails that my website sends out)
//prepare email headers
$headers = "From: " . "info#mysite.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". "info#mysite.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: sent#mysite.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$message = getMsg( ... );
mail( $buyer_email, 'mysite.com - Verify your information.', $message, $headers );
$message = getMsg( ... );
mail( $seller_email, 'mysite.com - Verify your information.', $message, $headers );
The emails get sent out perfectly fine. The problem is with the second email that gets BCC'ed to me. The recipient's email address is blank so I can't see who the email was sent to. The first email that's BCC'ed to me is fine, all the info shows up. In other words, I can see $buyer_email, but I can't see $seller_email. Any ideas?
You can debug it like this
echo "Seller Email: $seller_email";
mail( $seller_email, 'mysite.com - Verify your information.', $message, $headers )
The page will print the seller email and you can see what it actually is.
Addition
If you can not use the above code because you have to test it a user (which is normal btw), use the following technique.
Since you are getting the first email, send $seller_email as part of test code in that email and see what value it has.
$message = getMsg( ... );
mail( $buyer_email, "mysite.com - Test Seller Email: $seller_email .", $message, $headers );
You will find out the seller email value in the email you get.
Does sending additional headers help? (see mail()) That way you don't have to use 2 mail functions.
Like this:
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck#example.com' . "\r\n";
I'm very sorry, but I made a huge mistake. Long story, but basically I was confusing code on one page with very similar code on a different page. I was testing the validity of $seller_email on the wrong page. On the page in question, it was in fact NOT being set. Once again, sorry. I should have posted the entire code.
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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";
i am using this code :
$to = "someone#example.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse#example.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
it sends email to my gmail's SPAM folder .
Suggest any solution .
i dont want to use any PEAR MAIL type way to send email or dont want to require and include any file.
This functions works without including/requiring any additional php file.
You should use proper header like this from PHP manual
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary#example.com>, Kelly <kelly#example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday#example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive#example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck#example.com' . "\r\n";
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
The Gmail spam filter has lots of parts to it which determine the spamminess of mail. You could start by seeing the SPF record for your domain. Avoid using sales language, HTML and colours where possible in your email.
There's also an old but fun video from Google about how their spam filtering works.
It's all in the headers. I don't know how GMail works internally, but I've found on my projects that setting Reply-To can Content-Type headers seems to fix this.
See PHP mail() docs for an example of doing this.
(Note: I've got a PHP questionnaire/response system that sets these headers and the e-mails come through correctly to GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail).