php mail ends up in junk mail folders.

swedee

Hi there I use a simple php mail script for many of my web sites

mail("my@recipient.com", "Subject text", "
My email message", "From: my@email.comr\nX-mailer😛HP/" . phpversion());

Recently I found out that emails like this are filtered out by hotmail and outlook2003 and ends up in the junk mail folder. Why is that and how can I avoid it?

Please help me 🙂

Johan Siggesson

bailo81

I use the following script and dont tend to have any problems:

$to = "email@email.com"; 
$subject = "Test Email"; 
$headers .= "From: mycompany.com <info@mycompany.com>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: mycompany.com <info@newmediaboutique.com>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-Path: mycompany.com\r\n"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Organization: mycompany\r\n"; // Organisation 

$message = "<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Email message</p>
</body>
</html>";


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

This is for a html email but you dont have to use html in the message. It doesnt get put into my spam folder in Outlook or when sent to hotmail.

Hope this helps

swedee

Thank you for your help but unfortunately it goes straight to the junk mail folder in hotmail when I am testing.

bailo81

Is there a chance there is a word you are using in the title or message that hotmail is picking up as spam?

swedee

No it isnt really., I have tried many different messages and subjects... and headers...

mad4dweb

As most of you I had to spend hours playing with the headers.
The way to solved it was like this.

It didnt have nothing to do in the way headers where made,
it just had to do as who was sending the mail.

You can not tell hotmail you are sending a mail as user@hotmail.com, it will automatically send you to the Junk Mail.

WRONG

$headers .= "From: \"My Name\" <user@hotmail.com>\r\n";

CORRECT

$headers .= "From: \"My Name\" <user@anydomain.com>\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

Here you can put what ever you like

$headers .= 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;' . "\r\n";
$headers .= " boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"";

Regards