Mail() Function X-Anti Abuse warnings

[pluft]

I have a list of user names that have visited my site and are added to my mailing list. Every works great. I was testing Mail() just fine with 1-2 email acounts then I like what I was getting and decided to broadcast my message to my users. Low and behold I get X-Anit Abuse Message accross the top of my messages... Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing a header attribute or something..

          $from_email="[e-mail]";

          $headers ="From: DraftHelp.com <$from_email>\n";
          $headers .="Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:10:00 -700";
          $headers .="Reply-To: <$from_email>\n";
          $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
          $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
          $headers .= "X-Sender: DraftHelp.com <$from_email>\n";
          $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n"; //mailer
          $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; // 1=UrgentMessage 3=Normal
          $headers .= "Return-Path: <$from_email>\n";
          $headers .= "Return-Receipt-to: <$from_email>\n";

          MAIL($to, $subject, $msg, $headers . phpversion());

Any help would be appreciated.

[acidbox]

Can you post your exact error message? I have never heard of an anit abuse msg.

[pluft]

Sorry I ment to add this... Here is what I am getting on the top of my messages

X-Sender: DraftHelp.com X-Mailer: PHP4 X-Priority: 3 Return-Receipt-to: Message-Id: X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gamma.host.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - stpaultel.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [99 99] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gamma.host.com X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 303285026 4.2.3

[diego25]

I guess one of the mail servers along the way felt that you had too many e-mails in the To: field, so it tagged it as possible spam...Figure out which mail server it is, and speak to the administrator of that mail server. (or leave it as it is, since it's in the header and ppl don't usually read the header....as long as your message gets thru, everything's ok 😛 )

Diego

[pluft]

I thought that some server was kicking it out but I only have 1 emial address per mail() statement ... I am looping through my database but I only have 1 at a time.

Thanks

[diego25]

Then maybe it's your mail server that's adding that. Maybe your mail server logs your last sent e-mail, and if you go above a rate (message/second) then it will tag those mails as spam...maybe 🙂

Diego

[jayant]

These days all mail servers add these headers. These help to determine who/where/when did the mail orginate, so that one can be tracked when the server is mis-used/abused.

[drew010]

I know this is a somewhat old topic but for those who surf to this post in a search engine looking for information on the X-Anti-Abuse headers, they will find some info here, as there is not much anywhere else.
Exim adds these headers to outgoing messages, which are usually sent by php and cgi scripts. It is under a config option in your exim.conf file, which on most servers is located in /etc/exim.conf. The option that adds these headers is an option called 'headers_add' (who would have thought).
For those who run their own servers and/or dont want these headers added open your exim.conf file and find:

headers_add = "X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report\n\
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - $primary_hostname\n\
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - $original_domain\n\
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [$originator_uid $originator_gid] / [$caller_uid $caller_gid]\n\
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - $sender_address_domain\n"
condition = "${perl{checkspam}}"

Those are located at approximately the the 451st line. My exim file is slightly modified for my systems needs. All you have to do is # comment # those lines or simply erase them and your mail will no longer have those headers added.

I hope that helps some people out and shines light on the that anti abuse header as I have seen on some forums people think that is added by the server that receives the mail.

-drew-

[wildcoyote]

Drew,

Thanks very much for that info 😃

Tony.