I am using phpmailer to send my newsletter to my subscribers.
I set my headers as following:
$headers = "From: Sales - Blah Blah <sales#blahblah.com>";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
NOW, in the delivered email, for example in a gmail account, if you press the "show details" link, the following appears.
from Sales - Blah Blah MIME-Version: 1.0
sales#blahblah.com via ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com
to blahblah#gmail.com
date Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM
subject sales !
***mailed-by ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com***
HERE IS THE QUESTION:
HOW CAN I MAKE IT ACTUALLY SEND THE EMAIL FROM THE ACTUAL EMAIL ACCOUNT, that is "sales#blahblah.com" and be able to see the outgoing emails on my "sent" tab?
I guess, when this happens, the last line mentioned in bold would say
"mailed by blahblah.com"
Regards, George
PHPmailer as in http://phpmailer.worxware.com? Or do you mean PHP's built-in mail() function? It would appear you're using mail(), since you're building your own MIME message. Don't do that. It's too much main and unreliable. use PHPmailer (at the link mentioned earlier) or Swiftmailer to do that sort of thing for you.
Either way, if you want the mails you send to show up in your account's "sent" folder, you'd have to send the emails via your own email account using blahblah.com's mail server. Another option would be to set a BCC: to silently copy yourself on each mail, and have a mail rule on your account to divert those mails to a folder.
The simple answer is: you cant.
All phpmailer does is connect to the mail server to send the mail. It does not link to your actual e-mail account in any way at all.
EDIT:
Also, you will not be able to remove the ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com reference as that is the hostname of the server that is sending the mail. A mail server runs on one IP address, this IP has a hostname, in this case ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com.
You don't have a newline after the first line of headers, specifically the From header.
Related
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 $headers .= "X-Priority: 2\nX-MSmail-Priority: high"; to get rid of Spam. This method has been tried and tested.
the problem is, the server you're sending the mail from is not a yahoo server. most spam filters check if they match, otherwise it would (and is - or was) possible to easily fake the sender. ever wondered why you get spam from bill.gates AT microsoft.com or your own mail address?
You've got two solutions:
use Yahoo's SMTP using abc#yahoo.com credentials to send mail from abc#yahoo.com;
use other from, with your own domain;
You can try the mail class and test file that I have created here. I have tested the files and can send emails to my hotmail and gmail under a different mail name. The main reason why the emails are mark as junk is because the structure (both header and message) is not correctly done. In most cases, it is the line feed that is causing the problem.
I can use it to send mail with attachments to Gmail. However, the attachments dont work for hotmail. Hope this helps =)
You can check the files here..
I have created a contact form using mail function, everything just fine but there is a problem by sending mail from yahoo to gmail!
any email to any email is good(even from gmail to yahoo).
But when the email goes from yahoo to gmail, it dose not work!
Like this:
mail("myemail#gmail.com",$subject,$message,"From :myemail#yahoo.com");
This dose not work!
how to fix this?
whole code:
<?php
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$email;
$subject=$form_name." - ".$subject;
$message=nl2br($message);
$message=$message."<br /><br /><br />".$name."<br />".$phone."<br />".$web;
$message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");
if(mail($send_to,$subject,$message,$headers)){
echo "<p class='success'><span></span> ".$success."</p>";
}
else{
echo "<p class='error'><span></span> there was a problem, please try again</p>";
};
?>
Most likely this is failing due to a security check - your server is not associated with Yahoo.com, thus when the origin IP address of the e-mail is checked against the domain of the sender e-mail address, it fails and the e-mail is blocked. Only some e-mail providers do this level of checking.
If your goal is to have your yahoo e-mail address show as the reply to address, try setting it using the reply-to: header instead of the from: header. See the PHP mail() docs for more specifics. Use the appropriate or default from address of your domain or server. This will give you the best results as far as making sure your e-mails actually get delivered.
When your mail server is sending an email, the DNS SPF record is checked to ensure that your server is allowed to send emails where from address is set to yahoo.com or gmail.com. If there is no SPF records which tells that your server is allowed to send emails for yahoo.com domain, this means that your server is maybe sending a SPAM. This way, some mail servers can reject emails received from your server.
I've just solved the same problem by moving the sender email address from the "from" header to the "reply-to" header.
Set From with something like "no-answer#yourmail.com"
Set Reply-to (add a line in your code) with the sender email address.
Gmail will no longer filtrate the mail, considering it's a transparent behavior and then not a spam attempt.
Though the problem occurs only with Yahoo/Gmail…
When I send a mail with PHP the destinatary gets a header like this one:
noreply#justwalk.it **via** de p3nlhg147.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
I want to remove the "via" part. Most automated mails from websites don't have the "via" so it's certainly possible to remove it.
How do they do it?
Yes, you can get rid the "via" part. Here's the details:
1) SPF and DKIM
Firstly, you would need to set an SPF record for the domain you are sending emails from and enable DKIM as well. These are primarily for identifying your messages against spam.
2) "From: anything#yourdomain.com"
Secondly, make sure you are setting the “From: ” header to be an email address on the domain you are sending messages from. Don’t pretend to be someone else. Use “From: someone#abc.com” if you are sending the messages from abc.com, rather than anything else, such as blah#def.com, or yours#gmail.com, or whatever. If you want the recipient to reply to your Gmail email instead of your domain email, use the “Reply-To: ” header. “From: ” must always be the domain email that you are sending the email from.
3) "Return-Path: return#yourdomain.com"
Thirdly and most importantly, set the “Return-Path: ” header to be the same domain as that of the “From: ” header. Use the 5th parameter of the mail() function for this:
mail('recipient#example.com', 'Subject', "Message Body", $headers, '-freturn#yourdomain.com')
So the Return-Path of this message would be “return#yourdomain.com” (the email address immediately following the -f switch). The $headers parameter should contain all the necessary message headers. Make sure “From: ” is something#yourdomain.com.
After these steps and measures, Gmail should now completely trust your messages from yourdomain.com. The ‘via‘ field of your messages should be gone and the ‘mailed-by‘ field as well as the ‘signed-by‘ field should be correctly showing up as yourdomain.com.
Hope it helps!
I also fetched the same problem. But I have overcome the problem by using the following code:
mail('maaaa#abcd.com', 'the subject', 'the message', null,'-faaa#abc.com');
Make sure that last parameter is -f with the email address.
You can add the
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";<br />
mail('maaaa#abc.com', 'the subject', 'the message body in html format', $headers,'-faaaa#abc.com');
for the html message body in email.
This is probably added by your MTA and you didn't say which MTA you are using.
I'd recommend sending the mails not by PHP's mail() function but via SMTP, possibly even with SMTP-Auth, using something like PHPMailer.
#Mujibur is also right, But I used. But Didn't missed Headers too.
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, '-f'.$from_email_address);
And its successful to me, Let's check it from your side.
See what Google says about this here: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=1311182
All the best!
I have a website, and in the "Contact" section I have a form which users may fill in to contact me.
The form is a simple form which action is a php page.
The php code:
$to = "email#domain.com";
$name=$_POST['name']; // sender name
$email=$_POST['email']; // sender email
$tel= $_POST['tel']; // sender tel
$subject=$_POST['subject']; // subject CHOSEN FROM DROPLIST, ALL TESTED
$text=$_POST['text']; // Message from sender
$text.="\n\nTel:".$tel; // Added to message to show me the telephone nr to the sender at bottom of message
$headers="MIME-Version: 1.0"."\n";
$headers.="Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8"."\n";
$headers.="From: $name <$email>"."\n";
mail($to, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $text, $headers, '-fno-reply#domain.com');
Could somebody please tell me why this works most of the time, but sometimes I receive email whith no text and the subject line showing
=?UTF-8?B??=
I use outlook express, and I have read this System.Net.Mail and =?utf-8?B?XXXXX.... Headers
but it didn't help.
The problem is not in Outlook, because when I log in to the actual mailprogram where I fetch the POP3 emails from, the email looks the same.
When I right click in Outlook and chose "message source" then there is no "From" information.
Ex, a good message should look like this:
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?w5Z2cmlndA==?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
From: John Doe
However, the ones with problem looks like this:
Subject: =?UTF-8?B??=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
From:
As if the information has been lost somewhere.
You should know also that I have a VPS, which I manage myself.
I use postfix as an emailserver, if thats got anything to do with it.
But then again, why does it work sometimes?
Also another thing that I have noticed is that sometimes special characters are not shown correctly (by both Outlook and the webmail).
For instance, the name "Björkman" in swedish is shown like Björkman, but again, only sometimes.
I hope anybody knows something about this problem, because it is very hard to track down for me atleast.
If you need more input let me know.
Thanks
When looking at PHP mail(), I see another line breaking: shouldn't you use \r\n as line endings?
And that Björkman example looks very much like your mail is not recognized as UTF-8 encoded.
I have created an php mail script, And in the message of the mail i sent i am using many variables (data). For example i want to sent an mail with this body msg:
Name: Somename
Email: someemail#somwhere.com
City: Somecity
State: somestate
.........
What i am doing is this:
$msg = "Name: $name (brake) Email: $email (brake)......"
this message is not working in major emails like gmail, hotmail, yahoo...
I get the mail with html tags and i dont want that.
There must be some other way to do this so my mail structure looks good on every email account ?
Make sure in the header declarations you are declaring it as an HTML e-mail.
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php should help out as well. Follow the example code in there and it's guaranteed to work.
I would recommend the PHP email packages available through PEAR:
PEAR Mail - for interfacing with the server/smtp mailer and performing the action of sending
PEAR Mail_Mime - Which handles the formatting for sending of plaintext or HTML email.
Check out the documentation for usage.
Well there is the possibility that you aren't setting the header to indicate that the type is HTML. But why would you want to roll your own mail sender. There is a great email sender for php: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/ and it is free.