PHP Mail help

[therealwesfoster]

This is weird and happens a lot.

 

When I send an email from a php script

mail("[email protected]","Literature Request",$msg);

 

I receive the email in my GMAIL account, no problem. But when sending to any other email address (that ISN'T GMAIL), it doesn't get received. Not even in the spam folder.

 

Whats up with that?

 

Wes

[the182guy]

Hotmail and Yahoo are notorious for this. It's basically their spam filters blocking the email.

 

You haven't set any headers or the senders address, that is probably why they aren't being received, the spam filters just drops it.

 

What I normally do to ensure the email gets through is set the  from, reply-to and return path headers. Often the senders email address needs to be on the same server as the web server, and it also helps if the email account does actually exist.

 

  $headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n";
  $headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n";
  $headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n";

  $success = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

[therealwesfoster]

and it also helps if the email account does actually exist

 

That's my problem!

 

No, not really I'll add those headers and let you know

 

Wes

[therealwesfoster]

Negatory, here's the new code:

 

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \r\n";
$headers .= "From: [email protected] \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected] \r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected] \r\n";
mail("[email protected],[email protected]","Literature Request",$msg,$headers);

[the182guy]

Does the senders email address exist, and is the domain name of the email address pointing to the originating web server?

[forced4]

I do not want to hijack your post, but I too, have this issue. The only thing that is differnet is, I am trying to let others email me via a form on my page. I only get success when I test it with emails addys that are on my domain. Any other email ( they do exist ) from my isp or yahoo or gmail all gets failed response. Is this the same cause?

 

P.S. I am really a newbie to this.

[therealwesfoster]

Turned out to be a server issue for me. I changed servers and everything then worked perfectly as it should. So if you want to fix this problem, or simply find a better host, click here

 

Wes

[forced4]

Ok,  I don't know if this is a bad thing, but I changed the "from" field of my php to be "[email protected]" I left the rest of it the same and it seems to work 100% so far. I need to know if there is a better way. I can post the entire PHP if you'd like. It is very basic