Using mail() function to send to Hotmail?

[paulbradley]

When I use the mail() function to send emails it works fine to most accounts but they never get through to hotmail - is there a solution to this?

Thanks in advance

 

[sleipnir214]

When you send an email to other addresses, are all the headers correct? Particularly the "From" and "Reply-to" headers?

If you send an email to a Hotmail account through the mail server PHP is using, but using another mail client, does the mail go through?


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[jpadie]

i had a similar problem. it turned out to be that hotmail was treating my mail as spam as the assigned address was in a dial-up pool.

 

[paulbradley]

I use the following code:

$to = "me@nospam.hotmail.com";
$subject = "test";
$message = "will i get through?";
$headers = "From: me@nospam.cs.cf.ac.uk\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: AuctionWorld <me@nospam.cs.cf.ac.uk.com>\n";

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

Any ideas? Emails do get through to other web accounts. Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

It could be that your "From:" header and your "Reply-To:" headers don't match. Hotmail is very picky about email.


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[paulbradley]

Changed code to:

$to = "nospam@hotmail.com";
$subject = "test";
$message = "will i get through";
$headers = "From: nospam@cs.cf.ac.uk\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: nospam@cs.cf.ac.uk\n";

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

And still no luck, any other ideas? Thanks.

 

[kenrbnsn]

You might want to try using the 5th parameter to the mail() function, which "really" sets the from address.

mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers,'-f nospam@cs.cf.ac.uk');

This works well with sendmail and exim.

I think Hotmail may also be checking spf1 records in the DNS setup for your domain. Google for "spf1 hotmail" and you'll find many postings.

Ken

 

[paulbradley]

That works!! Cheers!!!!!