php mail forwarded to hotmail problem

[journy101]

Not sure if this is a problem with my PHP or a mail server issue.

I have a feedback form I made in php. The user fills a form, submits and my mail server takes over. To get past my mail server I found the only way was to send to a local address and have the server automaticaly forward. Otherwise I need authentification. I want my feedbacks to be sent to my hotmail acount. Hers a sniplet of the headers used in the php form:

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['name']." <".$_POST['email'].">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "To: Admin <journy101@localhost>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST['name']." <".$_POST['email'].">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: ".$_POST['priority']."\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Hello World";

The php works, It conects and sends to journy101@localhost, message gets acepted for delivery, and my server automaticaly forwards it to hotmail. I did this in my acount settings for the server, I set to auto forward. Problem is I am getting the mail in my Junk folder.

When I researched this issue, I discovered that if the To: or CC: line does not contain the recipitants hotmail address then it is Junk, heres a sniplet of the headers I get in my junk box over at hotmail.

From: Test <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: Test <[e-mail]>
To: Admin <journy101@localhost>

Since the only way I can find to get it over to my hotmail acount without it asking me for authentification is to send to my local address and have it forward from there, the headers seem to be forwarded untouched.

Tryed changeing the To line in the php but leaveing the first parameter to mail function untouched, but no luck.

I would rather recieve the mails at hotmail, but cant find a way for it not to be junk.

Can someone please guide me on any posible solutions.

[matbennett]

I happened to see the following post by Godfried van Loo on php.net yesterday, which may be of help. The whole thread is at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php, if you are interested

Now the most important.
When using mail() you should insert headers, and not just a few!!!
I give you an example I'm using.
Very important is also to include the ' To: ' header. I forgot this and when
I put it in my code Hotmail didn't refuse my e-mails anymore. Only when
people have there Junk Mail listed as "Exclusive". But when configured
"High" it will go ok.

Here the example:

$myname = "Me Myself"; 
$myemail = "[e-mail]"; 

$contactname = "Mister Contact"; 
$contactemail = "[e-mail]"; 

$message = "hello from happy me"; 
$subject = "A mail not refused by Hotmail"; 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myreplyemail>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server"; 

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers); 

[journy101]

I also seen the same message as I was reading through the manual pages. Those headers are the ones I used, I just inserted my own variable names and made a few changes. The to line I think is my problem, as the to line in the header contains my local address, hotmail places in junk the email if the recipitants email is not in either the to or cc.

As mentioned the the post, the to line is important. But the problem I am geting is in order for my server to acept the message for delivery I have to send first to my local address, and haveing set that up to auto forweard to my hotmail, because it also seems to forward the headers un touched, hotmail places it in the junk mail folder.

Somehow I need to find a way around this, so that the to line can contain the hotmail address, but doing so in the php headers causes my server to throw up the not authorized message.

helo anon
250 Welcome [24.101.x.x], pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM:journy101@localhost
250 Sender "journy101@localhost" OK...
RCPT TO:[e-mail]
550 User not local. Authentication required for relay
helo anon
250 Welcome [24.101.x.x], pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM:journy101@localhost
250 Sender "journy101@localhost" OK...
RCPT TO:journy101@localhost
250 Recipient "journy101@localhost" OK...
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
250 Message accepted for delivery.