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[jackr1909]

Hi,

 

I need to send automated HTML emails with PHP for my web-server. I have SMTP with Postfix and Sendmail. When i send an email, it just goes to the spam folder of the mail client (tried with GMAIL as well as Microsoft outlook). Could i have the code for sending emails so they don't go to the spam folder. With full headers, etc.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Jack

[Pikachu2000]

If you want someone to write this for you, I can move the thread to the freelance forum, and you can hire someone. Is that what you want?

[l0gic]

Jackr, care to post the code you're using at the moment and see if we can help or point you in the right direction?

 

At the moment your post is a bit like me going to an auto-store and asking, "My car needs a new head gasket, can I have one please?"

 

Without letting them know what car model, make or year of car I drive.

[requinix]

Another option is using something like PHPMailer which takes care of many of the things that tend to get emails flagged as spam.

[l0gic]

I'll jump the gun and bet it's the same issue I used to have. I got around it by changing the "From:" header to "mydomain@myhost.com" (the actual account sending the email) and adding a "Reply-To:" header for "someone@mydomain.com" (the address you want people to reply to)

 

If not set like this and if the originating domain "myhost.com" and the "From" header domain "mydomain.com" do not match, I imagine the spam filters will mark it as spam.

 

It should look kinda like this..

 

<?php
    $header .= "Reply-To: Some One <someone@mydomain.com>\n";
    $header .= "Return-Path: Some One <someone@mydomain.com>\n";
    $header .= "From: Some One <mydomain@myhost.com>\n";
    $header .= "Organization: My Organization\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n";

    mail("to@wherever.com", "Message Subject", "This is my message.", $header);
?>

 

Edit: Fixed typo.

[jackr1909]

If you want someone to write this for you, I can move the thread to the freelance forum, and you can hire someone. Is that what you want?

No thanks, but some more helpful users offered a better suggestion,

 

Thanks anyway