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Email is not going in hotmail inbox


farhankhan

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I am trying to send email in hotmail inbox, every thing works fine but email goes in the junk folder of hotmail. I want to send the email in the inbox. In addition with, it works fine in case of gmail, msn and yahoo.  here is my code:

 

 

<?php
 
if(isset($_POST['done']) )
{
 
$name = $_POST['xclient'];
$phoneno  = $_POST['xphoneno'];        
$clemail       =    $_POST['xclemail'];    
$jouneytype = $_POST['xjouneytype'];  
$pickup         =  $_POST['xpickup']; 
$dropof         =  $_POST['xdropof']; 
$jobdate             =   date('d-m-Y', strtotime($_POST['xjobdate']));
$jobtime         = $_POST['xjobtime'];         
$enddate  =   date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST['xenddate']));
$endtime       =     $_POST['xendtime'];  
$to      =     $_POST['xdrvmail'];  
   
$Cc = "myaddress@example.com"; 
// Multiple recipients
 
// Subject
$subject = ' ORDER DETAILS -  ECL-WORLDWIDE';
 
// Message
$message = "
<html>
<head>
  <title>Order Details</title>
</head>
<body>
  
  <table>
    
    <tr>
      <td><b>Client Name</b></b></td><td>$name</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><b>Contact No</b></td><td>$phoneno</td>
    </tr>
 
      <td><b>Pickup Location</b></td><td>$pickup  </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><b>Drop of Location</b></td><td>$dropof</td>
    </tr>
 
 
 
 
  <tr>
      <td><b>Job Date</b></td><td>$jobdate</td>
    </tr>
 
  <tr>
      <td><b>Job Time</b></td><td>$jobtime</td>
    </tr>
 
  <tr>
      <td><b>Completion Date</b></td><td>$jobdate</td>
    </tr>
 
  <tr>
      <td><b>Completion Time</b></td><td>$jobtime</td>
    </tr>
 
 
 
 
 </table>
</body>
</html>
";
 
 
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: $Cc" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ECL-Worldwide <myaddress@example.com>" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To:   myaddress@example.com" . "\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
 
 
mail($to, $subject, $message,  $headers);
 
}
?>
 
 

 

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The code has plently of problems.

 

First off, you're allowing anybody to send almost arbitrary content (read: spam) to arbitrary addresses without any restriction. That's certainly a good way to get yourself blacklisted.

 

Then you're using the lame mail() function which sends the e-mails straight from the webserver. That's usually a bad idea. Unless the server is managed professionally (which I doubt), it probably doesn't have anything like a proper SPF record or DKIM to tell the world that it is in fact authorized to send e-mails for this domain. And it may already be blacklisted due to prior abuse.

 

Last but not least, your e-mails are full of XSS vulnerabilities, which is even worse than spam and another good reason to reject your stuff.

 

There's definitely a lot to learn and do before this is ready for production.

  • Never ever let random visitors send out e-mails uncontrolledly. There should be a registration procedure for the sender or, if that isn't possible, a good CAPTCHA. A rate limit also helps avoid obvious abuse.
  • Never ever let users put random content into e-mails. Always validate and escape the input.
  • Use a proper library like PHPMailer instead of this mail() crap.
  • Make sure to send the e-mails from an authorized machine. If you have an external mail server for your domain, use that.
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