mail() fails at Hotmail.

[Anon]

I am using PHP mail() to send HTML mails.
The function is working as expected, except that it is unable to send mails to Hotmail account.

My acript is at
http://www.countercrazy.com/testmail.txt

it can be tested at
http://www.countercrazy.com/testmail.php

I think I have set all the required headers...so what's wrong?

Thanks.

[Anon]

Any ideas anybody?

[tubedogg]

When you say "unable", do you mean that your script gives an error when trying to send to Hotmail, or that the user at Hotmail never receives your email?

Assuming it is the latter, chances are your mail is being dumped as being from "nobody". If you have not modified your default PHP installation and are on *nix, PHP is running as "nobody" and that's who it sends mail as. A lot of servers think mail from nobody is spam and just dump it outright.

[Anon]

Yes, it that Hotmail never received my mails..i get no error.

Yes, it may be that the mail is rom 'nobody'..but i AM using the Fron: header and the Mailer header and the replyto header.

otherwise, do you have any suggestions how I can correct this?

You can try the script I gave to check the heades I am using.