sendmail problems mail()

[glenelkins]

hi

 

im getting quite frustrated with this. I setup a linux server with cPanel. Now when a php program sends mail using  the mail() function all the emails go through but end up in the receivers spam/bulk email folders.

 

Any ideas why its doing that? Even if i do ini_set ( 'sendmail_from', 'bla@bla.com' ) in the php and setup the headers correctly From: bla@bla.com  it still goes into the spam!

[JonnoTheDev]

Are they hotmail addresses?

[glenelkins]

hi

 

no it does it for every domain it sends an email from.

 

say i have the website setup up www.joeblogs.com, i would code something like:

 

$headers = "From:root@joeblogs.com\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html\n";
$att = "-froot@joesblogs.com\n";

ini_set ( "sendmail_from", "root@joeblogs.com" );

mail ( "sales@joeblogs.com", "Test", "BODY", $headers, $att );

 

[glenelkins]

hi

 

i am almost 100% positive this is something to do with the server setup for sendmail. Does anyone know how i can change the "sender" that the mail() function uses ?? Rather than it being something like nobody@localhost  ill change it to a real domain

[JonnoTheDev]

No, its just your headers. You certainly do not need this:

ini_set ( "sendmail_from", "root@joeblogs.com" );

 

Here:

<?php

$name 	  = "Joe Bloggs";
$from	  = "info@joebloggs.com";
$to	  = "sales@joebloggs.com";

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain;\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
$headers .= "From: \"".$name."\" <".$from.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: \"".$name."\" <".$from.">\n";

$subject  = "Test Message";
$mail	  = "This is the email body\n";

mail($to, $subject, $mail, $headers, "-f".$from);

?>

[glenelkins]

can you explain what was wrong with my headers?

[glenelkins]

just so you know, your code does'nt work either

[JonnoTheDev]

In the email client have you checked the message headers? Are they correct as you have set in the program. Correct From / To

[steviewdr]

Take a read. I've had the same issues before I got my own server.

 

http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Sendmail

 

-steve

[glenelkins]

hi

 

just a thought, the server uses Exim. There must be a way to setup exim to use smtp as you can with sendmail