PHP sendmail

[shawjames]

We have a feature where customers can sign up for product alerts by email. This is automatically generated from our php script. The problem is, we get reports that hotmail and AOL customers are not getting alerts... not even in their spam.

Is this a common problem specific to hotmail and AOL? Or, perhaps is there something wrong with our script?

function sendEmailMsg($email, $subj, $body, $from){
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Priority: 1\r\n';
$headers .= 'X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n';
$headers .= 'Importance: High\r\n';
mail($email, stripslashes($subj), stripslashes($body), $headers);
}

Please let me know!

[NogDog]

One possibility is that the hosting company you are using has had its IP address range "black-listed" by those sites (due to the amount of spam coming from it). Other than that, searching the web for something like "AOL mail header" and such may bring to light more info as to particular things that they do/don't like. And these things are dynamic, so you need to find recent info and not something from a couple years ago.

Ah, those spammers just make life miserable for all of us, don't they? :rolleyes:

[Xager]

I never got mail() to work, i ended up using phpmailer instead. Saved me ALOT of trouble 🙂