mail is not going through

mrtopher · Nov 5, 2003

I have written a program that sends e-mail to people using the mail() function. I am including all the headers I can think of and yet I am getting reports that either people are not recieveing the message at all or they are being told that they have been sent e-mail from an untrusted source. And then there are people that get it just fine. I get the mail sent to my bulk mail folder through my e-mail provider.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?

sleipnir214 · Nov 5, 2003

Service providers can use any one of many methods to decide whether email is legit: SMTP header analysis, blackhole lists, whitehole lists, bayesian analysis of SMTP content, reverse DNS lookup on the sending server, ESMTP checks to see whether the sender's address or the reply-to address really exists.

It depends on the provider.

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mrtopher · Nov 5, 2003

Thanks for the input. It really doesnt sound like there is a sure way to get the e-mail through. I was going to use this as a way to send out user login information to a program I created, but if the e-mail wont go through that wont work. Do you have any ideas on how I might send out user login information so that ppl will actually recieve it?

sleipnir214 · Nov 6, 2003

Other than make sure that none of the previously-listed stuff is tripping you up?

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lupin3 · Nov 6, 2003

<?php
$to = "yourplace@somewhere.com";
$subject = "My HTML email test.";
$headers = "From: myplace@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: myplace2@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: myplace@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

$message = "<html><body>";
$message .= "<h1> This is a test </h1>";
$message .= "</body></html>";

if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) {
echo "The email has been sent!";
} else {
echo "The email has failed!";
}
?>

sleipnir214 · Nov 6, 2003

lupin3:
Do you know that your code snippet will actually work?

If so, what makes it work?
If not, why did you post the code?

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mrtopher · Nov 7, 2003

lupin3's idea seems to work. I am still doing some testing, but from what I can tell the mail is getting to people now. The only addition to the headers that I was already sending was the Return-Path. I dont know why this works, but it works.

Thanks!!!

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