Hello
I am looking to write an independent script to log into an e-mail account [IMAP], get the headers for each e-mail, locate & store the (sender's or server's) IP address from each one. I recognize that this has to be a bit comprehensive to cover the top 3 webmail providers (Yahoo, Google & Hotmail) as well as the other common header formats.
Ideally, I would like to get the senders' IP addresses, but would settle for the servers' IP addresses.
I need to do this in PHP in a regular LAMP setup.
Any ideas would help. Thank you.
The details of the servers the system transits through are shown in the top of the email header in reverse-chronological order - the most recent are at the top, the first servers are at the bottom.
A quick, off-the-cuff solution would be to use a RegExp to try and find the bottom "Received:..." line containing an IP address.
A very quick test suggests that:
$regExp = '/Received:.*((?:\d+\.){3}\d+)/';
will match the lines, and return IP addresses.
Then you'd just use something like preg_match_all() to return an array of matched lines, and use the last one of the lot.
That IP is IP of server who mailed it, not the sender IP. Do you want servers IP or senders IP?
After you connected, got the messages list and now is foreaching a message:
$header=imap_fetchheader($imap,$msgn);
$regex='/client\-ip\=(.+?)\;/s';
preg_match_all($regex,$header,$matches);
$clientip=echo($matches[1]);
It works like a breeze for me.
I know this post is old but the above selected answer does get an IP but it does not necessarily get the correct sending server IP address. Below is the regex I used to get the actual sending servers IP:
/^Received:\sfrom(.*)[\[\(]\s*(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})[\]\)]/im
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I am sending some mailings to a 5k list. I am not using any mailing commerce services. As expected I am getting some mails back from my mail-deamon and I would like to delete the those from the recipient-list. Is there a way to read the pop-mails programmatically?
is there maybe an easy and quick workaround?
A way to read POP mail via PHP: PHP: Download incoming email from POP3 or IMAP, parse it, and mark it as read/delete on server
(The code provided in the answer is using the functions suggested by Lèse majesté in its comment, but you find a ready to use small piece of working code thet does exacly what you need).
Obviously you will need to write also the code to programatically delete the address from your newsletter's DB.
I would use a cronjob (very easy to set on an hosting with cPanel) to programatically call the code that read the POP3 account and deletes the invalid addresses from DB.
A workaround? I don't know.
Can't you just set your "from" and "reply-to" address to an email address you can check? and then just check that email inbox to see what has bounced.
this was ask over and over and still no good solution!
When someone sends an email using php and placing another domain in "from" it will end up in spam.
Solutions normally are:
- Use your "from" and place the domain you want in the "reply-to";
- Have your domain whitelisted by main mail services.
The 1st its not really a solution and I was never able to make 2nd, because its impossible to reach hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc..
I see lots of sites today having the option to email article to someone from the user email. How can I achieve this?
Thx,
Telmo Cardoso
When someone sends an email using php
and placing another domain in "from"
it will end up in spam.
This is not neccessarily true.
Check which mail servers identify your message as spam. Also check with your hosting company for their preferred method to send out mail.
Try to be straightforward with your message. Offer the users a short textarea (with your default masage), which they can change and customize. Also give the possibility to enter real name of the participants with their e-mail addresses.
Just be senible and your messas will go thru.
Send the email from your webserver and add a reply-to header like you have mentioned.
Make sure you have SPF setup for your server to help get yourself into the gMail, Live Mail and Yahoo accounts.
A nice and cheap alternative is to send your emails via Amazon SES to avoid having to warm your own IPs etc.
I would go with the Amazon SES (or a similar service) and leave the worrying about getting the server setup right to the experts. Make ensuring deliverability someone elses problem.
This article is a nice starting point:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html
The problem is related to the header of the email. not neccessarily the 'from' address domain. Some spam filters (i.e. cox.net incoming spam filters) will perform a reverse lookup on the IP address that the email came from. If the domain name returned on the reverse lookup is not the domain name of the sending address. Then they will liekly mark it as spam.
I have a PHP website that send a validation code when a new account is created.
My problem is since few months, a lot of those email goes in the spam folder.
I thought of a solution that is to use an "external service" to send my email instead of simply sending it via the mail function in PHP.
Question : 1) What external service should I use (I guess it would requires to have an API)?
Try using your ISP's or company's server as a relay. Use a sending address which exists, so that validation can be done on it, and bounces sent back to it. You may want to setup a separate domain for verification such as verification.example.com. You could then send the validation message from application#verification.example.com. Replace application and example as appropriate.
You may also want to look at https://serverfault.com/questions/241189/email-delivery-management-grievances#241260.
Have a look at this documentation from Google. It involves your network support including reverse lookup and Domain keys to be present. I think most of the email servers would have similar requisites.
Many times, when using the builtin mail function, the configuration isn't set up to help prevent this from happening. The reason is the Received header is set to an internal IP address, like 192.168.x.x which is used as an indicator to most spam filters. You may want to try finding a simple SMTP class that connects remotely so the headers get set properly.
I have a web page that generates several email addresses. I need to be able to click on a link, which will open an email client such as outlook and populate the bcc field with those email addresses. In the past, we have used html's mailto, which achieves this goal perfectly.
My problem now is that I need to send emails to over 200 people, and mailto cannot handle that much information. Since the page also uses PHP, I have considered PHP's mail() and phpmailer(), but since both require that the entire email be generated on the page and the email client is never opened, they will not work.
Does anybody know of an alternative method I can implement to achieve this functionality?
Create a mailing list, add those e-mails to the mailing-list and send mail there instead.
As a bonus, you can use VERP to prune invalid addresses.
I don't think there is a convenient alternative method.
You could offer a textarea field containing all the addresses in a comma-separated list. That list could be easily copy+pasted into the client's E-Mail program.
If the client's E-Mail is on the same domain as the web site, and you have full control over your server, you could randomly generate E-Mail addresses on your server using PHP:
1293820239453202349#example.com
that E-Mail address would be configured to forward incoming mail (that your user with the mail client writes and sends to that one random address) to the big list of recipients. This is a very advanced method but hard to implement.
Maybe you can make an email group, depending on your mail system, such that when you send a mail to the address of the group, it will distribute to all members?
On our company, we have several groups. all#company.com, sales#company.com, developers#company.com etc. Sending one e-mail to such an address will make all members of the respective group receiving it.
MailTo with a Copy
<a href="mailto:astark1#unl.edu?cc=ASTARK1#UNL.EDU">
MailTo with a Blind Copy
<a href="mailto:astark1#unl.edu?bcc=ASTARK1#UNL.EDU">
is there any way to check if an email is active without sending it an email? (meaning that it does not get returned)
if i have 20,000 emails in my email list, and i do decide to send all of them an email, how can automatically cross out the email address that got returned?
Sending an email and requesting the user click some sort of activation link is the best way to determine if the email address is valid, and being used by someone. If you just want to see if the email is valid whether or not its registerd or active, use a Regex.
As for crossing them out, where are the emails stored? If its in a database, just set an activation key and a flag saying whether the link has been visited or not.
No.
Depends on how you are sending them. (Please provide more details)
There used to be a way to query a mail server if an email address is valid. However, since spammers used that facility for ill purposes, almost no mail servers will support that method anymore.
All you can hope to do is a DNS lookup on the email domain to see if the domain is valid.
These days, you can't know if the email address is valid. The domain is about as far as you'll get and you can do a reverse lookup on that to see if that is valid. But it won't tell you about the user.
What you need is something to process the bounces from your mail out and write some sort of script to perhaps update the list. There are many tools under Linux for this type of purpose such as procmail. Theres a port of that for windows I think.
No
You need mailing list management software. Lyris Listmanager is a paid one that has automatic bounce handling and removes users from your list. There are several free ones that doe the same thing: ezmlm, mailman, majordomo and many others. You probably don't want to just send all those emails without a piece of MLM software to manage it. you will probalby get blacklisted fromservers. You need things like unsubscribe handling or you won't be sending emails for long.
Heh. if you could find out a way, the answer would be worth billions to spammers.
The best answer here is: No.