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
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I'm building a website that sends and email to a user when he registers.
My code (the gist of it):
<?php
$to = "helloworld#gmail.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! \nThis is a simple email message.";
$headers = "From: munged#gmail.com";
$headers .= "\r\nReply-To: munged#gmail.com";
$headers .= "\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
the problem is that when the mail is delivered, the from header remains munged#box123.bluehost.com, while reply-to gets changed to the specified value.
box123.bluehost.com is the hostname of the server on which the website is hosted.
So what am I doing wrong? What can I do to get the "From" address the same as the reply-to address?
Is it something I'm doing wrong, or is the web host playing foul?
Edit: I just noted that you are trying to use a gmail address as the from value. This is not going to work, and the ISP is right in overwriting it. If you want to redirect the replies to your outgoing messages, use reply-to.
A workaround for valid addresses that works with many ISPs:
try adding a fifth parameter to your mail() command:
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers,"-f your#email.here");
It turns out the original poster's server (blueHost) has a FAQ concerning this very question.
Article 206.
This is because our servers require you (or your script) to use a properly formatted, valid From: field in the email's header. If the From: field is not formatted correctly, empty or the email address does not exist in the cPanel, the From: address will be changed to username#box###.bluehost.com.
You must change the script you are using to correctly use a valid From: header.
Examples of headers that should work would be:
From: user#domain.com
From: "user" <user#domain.com>
Examples of headers that will NOT work:
From: "user#domain.com"
From: user # domain.com
From: user#domain.com <user#domain.com>
Our servers will not accept the name for the email address and the email address to be the same. It will not accept a double declaration of the email address.
For scripts such as Joomla and Wordpress, you will need to follow their documentation for formatting the from fields properly. Wordpress will require the Mail From plugin.
Note: The email address you use must be a valid created account in the
cPanel.
I had the same Issue, I checked the php.net site. And found the right format.
This is my updated code.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' . $fromName . ' <' . $fromEmail .'>' . " \r\n" .
'Reply-To: '. $fromEmail . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
The \r\n should be in double quotes(") itself, the single quotes(') will not work.
In order to prevent phishing, some mail servers prevent the From from being rewritten.
I realize this is an old thread, but i had the same problem since i moved to bluehost yesterday. It may not have been the selected answer but i support the bluehost article 206 reply.
I created a valid email in control panel and used it as my From address and it worked.
I solved this by adding email accounts in Cpanel and also adding that same email to the header from field like this
$header = 'From: XXXXXXXX <test#test.org>' . "\r\n";
The web host is not really playing foul. It's not strictly according to the rules - but compared with some some of the amazing inventions intended to prevent spam, its not a particularly bad one.
If you really do want to send mail from '#gmail.com' why not just use the gmail SMTP service? If you can't reconfigure the server where PHP is running, then there are lots of email wrapper tools out there which allow you to specify a custom SMTP relay phpmailer springs to mind.
C.
headers were not working for me on my shared hosting, reason was i was using my hotmail email address in header.
i created a email on my cpanel and i set that same email in the header yeah it worked like a charm!
$header = 'From: ShopFive <site#mysite.org>' . "\r\n";
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 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 can't seem to send any mail using PHP's mail() function whenever I specify the addtional_headers parameter.
<?php
mail('email#email.com', 'subject', 'message here');
?>
Works fine, but
<?php
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'From: Me <me#email.com>' . PHP_EOL;
mail('email#email.com', 'subject', '<h1>message</h1>', $headers);
?>
Doesn't deliver any messages at all.
Are there any reasons why this might be occurring?
I can guarantee that your code works fine as-is as I've tested the actual code you provided and got the email sent to my specified email address - I see it in my inbox with a big message with <h1>. I tested it in a server that's capable of sending an email. Your issue may be your server not letting you or if it's a localhost you may need to set it up with a SMTP server- if it is indeed sending, worth a try to check your spam folder ;p
It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery, it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination.
That was from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Do you have a local server (or a remote on if you have configured it to do so) that is capable of sending emails? I know that localhost servers might not have the capability to actually deliver the email, only accepting queues.
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".