Sending emails to hotmail using mail() fails

TheIceman5

i run into this problem all over the place when ever i setup mail functions. It half the time does not send the email to a hotmail recipient when using mail() on linux.
anyone come across this problem before and a fix for it?

superwormy

Does the function actually fail ( return FALSE ) or does the recipient just never get the email?

You probably need to just send teh right headers, if certain headers are left out, Hotmail spam filters them. Check the user comments at www.php.net/mail or view the message source of an email sent with / to Outlook Express, and try to mimic that somewhat.

TheIceman5

yeah it sends the mail successfully but it never gets received, and i have tried copying the headers from a email sent from hotmail to hotmail and it still dont work. works to every other email address though.

TheIceman5

piersk

Having tried to send emails to Hotmail accounts before, I know that although its anti-spam software isn't amazing (far from it :p ), it does have a habit of picking out messages whos headers are not correctly formed. Can you post the code that creates the emails please?

Also, you might wanna check the body and subject of the email to make sure that it doesn't have anything words like "marketing", "sex", "enlargment" etc.

[edit]Bad Piers! Read the posts before posting...[/edit]

Yeah, I know that this has been said earlier, but still post the code please.