[Resolved] Email - Message Headers

baffled_in_UK

Hi,

I run a lottery syndicate and I mail the results to the members via a php script, some of the members use a work email address and the over-eager spam blocker on their server is blocking the emails.
The header and mail parameters I use are :

$subject="Message Subject" ;
$to = $email;
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; 
$headers .= "From: Me<mail@me.com>\n"; 
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers,"-f".$to);

(note: the mail@me.com is used for demonstration purposes.)

Are there any other settings or Header values that will allow me to "convince" the spam blocker that the mails are genuine?

Thanks

terfle

try this....

		$to_email 	= "";
		$to_name 	= "";
		$from_name 	= "";
		$from_email = "";
		$to 		= " $to_name <$to_email>"; 
		$subject 	= "Subject"; 

	$html_message = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\n"; 
	$html_message.= "<html><head><title></title>\n"; 
	$html_message.= "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">\n"; 
	$html_message.= "<style type=\"text/css\">\n"; 
	$html_message.= "body, td {\nfont-family: Trebuchet MS;\nfont-size: 12px;\n}\n"; 
	$html_message.= "</style>\n"; 
	$html_message.= "</head>\n"; 
	$html_message.= "<body>\n";
	$html_message.= "Message goes here\n";
	$html_message.= "</body></html>";

	// send the message :-) 


	$headers = "From: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n"; 
	$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
	$headers .= "Reply-To: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n"; 
	$headers .= "X-mailer: My mailer\r\n";


	$sent = mail($to, $subject, $html_message, $headers);

bradgrafelman

Umm... 'scuse me... headers are properly (and must be) ended with CRLF ('\r\n')... in fact, it's an RFC standard (RFC 2822).

Read up on using [man]mail[/man] functions in PHP if you aren't sure.

baffled_in_UK

Thanks for the help, that worked.

Weedpacket

Tell me, do you really need to send this as HTML? What is it, half a dozen numbers or so? What's wrong with good old renders-anywhere plain text?

baffled_in_UK

No I don't (and I don't), the thread was because I couldn't get my script past the spam-blocker at work.