[SOLVED] PHP Mail and Hotmail

[raku]

Hi,

 

When users create an account on my site, they are required to activate it by clicking a link in an email they receive. All emails seem to be getting delivered successfully except those to Hotmail. I assume that it's being sent directly to their Junk folder. Is there anyway around this?

 

Thanks!

[raku]

I got this working by using the following headers:

 

$headers = 
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
"From: [email protected]\r\n" .	
"X-Mailer: php" .phpversion() . "\r\n";

 

 

[raku]

Actually, the email does not display properly with GMail anymore. It says (unknown sender) and shows the following in the body of the email:

 

Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

From: [email protected]
X-Mailer: php5.1.6

 

 

 

[raku]

Here is the PHP code I have. Right now it's going into Yahoo and Hotmail's spam folders, but it works for GMail.

 

	$to = $email;
	$subject = 'Activate Account';
	$body =  'Click the link below to activate your account' . "\r\n";
	$headers = 
		'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
	$additional_parameters = "-f [email protected]";
	mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, $additional_parameters);

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[raku]

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thanks!

[darkfreaks]

PHP mail only accecpts 4 arguments put additional whatever into the headers like

 

Also modified it with /r/n so it recognized the mail and doesnt hopefully throw it in the junk folder

 

<?php
$to = $email;
	$subject = 'Activate Account' . "\r\n";
	$body =  'Click the link below to activate your account' . "\r\n";
	$headers = 
		'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";


$headers.= "-f [email protected]";


mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?>

 

[raku]

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, Hotmail still throws it into the Junk folder. Going to try Yahoo now.

 

edit: Yahoo goes to Spam. 

 

edit 2: the body of the email also contains "-f [email protected]"

[darkfreaks]

<?php
$headers  = 'From: ' . $from . "\n";
$headers .= 'To: ' . $email . "\n";
$headers .= 'Return-Path: ' . [email protected]. "\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' ."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' ."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'. "\n\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/HTML; charset=ISO-8859-1' ."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'. "\n\n";
$headers .= $body. "\n";
?>

[raku]

Thanks again. But it's still going to spam. This is the code I'm using:

 

<?php
$from = "[email protected]";
$to = "[email protected]";

$subject = 'Activate Account' . "\r\n";
$body =  'Click the link below to activate your account' . "\r\n";

$headers  = 'From: ' . $from . "\n";
$headers .= 'To: ' . $to . "\n";
$headers .= 'Return-Path: ' . "[email protected]" . "\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' ."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' ."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'. "\n\n";
$headers .= $body. "\n";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?>

 

Should body be in the header?

 

Thanks!

[darkfreaks]

here is the full code if you want to modify it

 

<?php
$boundary = api_password(16);
$headers = "From: \"".$from_name."\" <".$from_email.">\n"; $headers .=
"To: \"".$to_name."\" <".$to_email.">\n"; $headers .= "Return-Path:
<".$from_email.">\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .=
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$boundary."\"\n\n";
$headers .= $body_simple."\n"; $headers .= "--".$boundary."\n"; $headers
..= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"; $headers .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n"; $headers .= $body_plain."\n";
$headers .= "--".$boundary."\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: text/HTML;
charset=ISO-8859-1\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:
8bit\n\n"; $headers .= $body_html."\n"; $headers .=
"--".$boundary."--\n";

mail('', $subject, '', $headers);?>

[darkfreaks]

also instead of api_pasword you could do

 

 

<?php

$boundary="_----------=_10167391557129230";?>

[raku]

Hi,

 

I guess I have to remove the html and plain code since I'm using simple text. This is what I have, but it still goes to spam:

 

<?php
$boundary="_----------=_10167391557129230";
$from_name = "Support";
$from_email = "[email protected]";
$to_name = "[email protected]";
$to_email = "[email protected]";
$body_simple = "Click the link below to activate your account";

$headers = "From: \"".$from_name."\" <".$from_email.">\n";
$headers .= "To: \"".$to_name."\" <".$to_email.">\n";$headers .= "Return-Path:
<".$from_email.">\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .=
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$boundary."\"\n\n";
$headers .= $body_simple."\n"; $headers .= "--".$boundary."\n"; $headers .= "--".$boundary."--\n";

mail('', $subject, '', $headers);
?>

 

Also, what does boundary do?

 

Thanks for your help.

[darkfreaks]

Read up on MIME boundaries

[raku]

I'm having trouble finding documentation for that, could you please point me in the right direction? The email I received on a Yahoo account also contained some of the headers and was in spam. Is this because of the boundaries as well, or something else?

 

Sorry, but I'm in a bit of a rush to get these emails out of the spam/junk folders.

 

Thanks.

[darkfreaks]

try

<?php
$boundary="_----------=_10167391557129230";
$from_name = "Support";
$from_email = "[email protected]";
$to_name = "[email protected]";
$to_email = "[email protected]";
$body_simple = "Click the link below to activate your account";
$headers = "$from_email<$from_email>";
$headers .= "$to_email<$to_email>"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .=
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$boundary."\"\n\n";
$headers .= $body_simple."\n"; $headers .= "--".$boundary."\n"; 
$headers .= "--".$boundary."--\n";

mail('', $subject, '', $headers);
?>

[raku]

Thanks so much for helping. No email is delivered though.

[darkfreaks]

Modified Final:

 

<?php

$from_name = "Support";
$from_email = "[email protected]";
$to_name = "[email protected]";
$to_email = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Click the link below to activate your account";
$headers = "$from_name<$from_email>";
$headers .= "$to_email<$to_email>"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 

$mail=mail($to_name, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($mail) { echo "Message Was Successfuly Sent!";}

else { echo "Message could not be sent!";}
?>

[raku]

Unfortunately, it still goes to spam. It was also sending it as [email protected], so I added "From:" and "To:" in the headers. That made it send it twice, but the from email address is correct. I think the "To:" caused it to be sent twice.

[darkfreaks]

noticed an error in my coding:

 

 

<?php
$from_name = "Support";
$from_email = "[email protected]";
$to_name = "[email protected]";
$to_email = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Click the link below to activate your account";
$headers = "$from_name<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "$to_email<$to_email>\n"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: $to_name <$to_email>\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSmail-Priority: High\n"; 
$headers .= "X-mailer: My mailer\n";
$mail=mail($to_email, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($mail) { echo "Message Was Successfuly Sent!";}
else { echo "Message could not be sent!";}
?>

[raku]

Thanks again, but it still doesn't work. I changed the "reply-to" to from_email and from_name, but it still didn't get received.

[raku]

Anyone know how to get this to work?

 

Thanks.

[darkfreaks]

best option is to download and use PHPmailer

[raku]

I would like to avoid doing that. Are there any alternatives that could make this work with typical php mail()?

 

If anyone has any ideas on how to get this work, I'd greatly appreciate it!

 

Thanks.

[raku]

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thanks.

[raku]

I ended up going with phpmailer. Thanks for your help.