Email not reaching at its designation address

[chinto09]

Hi
i am using simple mail function to send mail on my hotmail/gmail/yahoo id, but the email is not reaching at my required designated hotmail or gmail id.

here is the simple code
which i am using

$subject="test mail";
$message="this is test message";

mail('[e-mail]', $subject, $message);

my site is hosted on the linux system

Path to sendmail : usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

thanx

[Jack_McSlay]

try specifying the sender. mail is often rejected when the sender is unknown

mail('[e-mail]', $subject, $message,'From: [e-mail]');

[chinto09]

i have tried with this code as well, but still mail can't reach at its designation address 🙁

mail('[e-mail]', $subject, $message,'From: [e-mail]');

[Jack_McSlay]

oh wait... you said you tested on Gmail, hotmail and yahoo, but only failed to work on hotmail and gmail? because if it is, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with your code, and it's the receiving server that doesn't accept e-mails from untrusted hosts

[bradgrafelman]

Or else their servers decided that your message didn't look very valid and discarded it as spam.

Search the board for e-mail headers to specify to make your piece of mail look more genuine (e.g. Reply-To, MIME-Version, Content-Type, etc. etc.). Also ensure that your domain has an SPF record and that your webserver is allowed under this record to send mail for your domain.