Mail() Seen as Junk In Outlook

latemodern

Hi,

I am trying to set up a system that automatically sends out emails to subscribers. I am testing it on my system using my own email address as the recipient address. For some reason it gets put into my junk folder by outlook express. Any way of stopping this?

It will eventually be used to send to people who use all sorts of different email clients. Are there any easy ways to avoid these being filtered into the junk mail?

My code is:

<?php

$body = <<<HTML

Poo: {$poo}.
Wee: {$wee}.

HTML;

$to = 'latemodern@hotmail.com';
$subject = 'Activity Has Been Booked';
$headers = "From: office@happeninguk.com\r\nContent-type: text/plain\r\n";

if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers));
else echo "Sending mail failed";

Thanks

Roger_Ramjet

You need to have a valid PTR record in your domain's DNS listing the IP of the sending server as a valid MTA agent for your domain name.

Unlikely that you can achieve this on a shared host as the reverse lookup is for that IP is going to refer to the ISP's domain not yours. Have a look at this article on solving dns email problems