mail( ) NOT sending to hotmail but does to other email servers!?

[leeming]

mail( ) has been working for over a year on my server, but only recently i have had members complaining to me that emails have not been sent to them...
after testing this myself i found out when using mail, it will not send to my hotmail.
I even tried sending it to an email it actually sends to, and having an automatic forward (that didn't work)
Then i even went onto hotmail's options and set it to accept the email i was using as the "from" header... nope.. still no email

i even looked on the forums for some headers that hotmail 'like'

[quote author=HuggieBear link=topic=107959.msg433816#msg433816 date=1158185415]
Are you including the [b]to:[/b] address anywhere in the headers?  If you are, remove it.  This works well for me:

[code]<?php
  $from_name = "HuggieBear";
  $from_address = "[email protected]";
 
  $to_name = "ToonMariner";
  $to_address = "$to_name <[email protected]>";
 
  $subject = "Give this a try";
  $message = "I last tested this with hotmail.com today and it still works fine.";
 
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $headers .= "From: $from_name <$from_address>\r\n";
  $headers .= "Reply-To: $from_name <$from_address>\r\n";
  $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
  $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
  $headers .= "X-Mailer: My Test Mailer";

  $success = mail($to_address, $subject, $message, $headers);
  if ($success) {
  echo "The email to $to from $from was successfully sent";
}
else {
echo "An error occurred when sending the email to $to from $from";
}
?>[/code]

Regards
Rich
[/quote]

that didn't even work...

i am totally stuck why hotmail decided not to accept any of my emails

[drifter]

what if your mailer was open to header injection, and people were using your form to spam and your IP is now blocked by them?

just a thought

[leeming]

[quote author=drifter link=topic=119596.msg489997#msg489997 date=1166760979]
what if your mailer was open to header injection, and people were using your form to spam and your IP is now blocked by them?

just a thought
[/quote]

i checked the "MAPs" site and a few others.. my server isnt blocked (i dont think any way)... but the only part of my sites that allow email.. is the registration.. i just using sum sample code to try break thru this hotmail 'block'

[Daniel0]

Check your junk folder.

[leeming]

[quote author=Daniel0 link=topic=119596.msg490083#msg490083 date=1166777676]
Check your junk folder.
[/quote]

I must of forgotten to add.... not in spam either... its just not getting thru to hotmail.....

since i posted this.. i have been testing alot of headers to see if hotmail would like any of them.... nope.. still wont get thru....

im now using this code to test....
[code]
<?php
if($_POST['submit'])
{
    $recipient = $_POST['email'];
    $subject = "Complete your Bavad.Com Registration";

    $headers = "From: leeming <[email protected]>\r\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: leeming <[email protected]>\r\n";
    $headers .= "Return-Path: leeming <[email protected]>\r\n";
    $headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $headers .=  "Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;\r\n";
    $headers .=  "Message-ID: <". time() .rand(1,1000). "@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">". "\r\n" ;
    $headers .=  "Date: ".date("r")."\r\n".
    $headers .=  "Subject: ".$subject."\r\n";
   
   
    $message = "Welcome to bavad.com! lets talk\n about loads of stuff\n password and stuff here";


    if(mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers))
    {
        echo "Mail (apparently) sent";
    }
}

echo("<form name='email' method='post'>");
echo("Recipieint: <input type='text' name='email' size='30'> <input type='submit' name='submit'>");
?>
[/code]


~edit~

after more and more research on this topic, i am coming to the conclusion it is hotmail blocking the server or what ever, instead of the headers.. (kinda as bad as AOL)
if there any way i can find out if my server is blacklisted *like said originally, i checked, but it said i hadn't*

extra info for ya:
My server is Linux
Apache version:  1.3.37 (Unix)
And its data center is in Texas i think...

could any of them factors affect it in any way?
i will continue researching this...

[Jessica]

Have you tried other hotmail accounts?

[leeming]

[quote author=jesirose link=topic=119596.msg491963#msg491963 date=1167198309]
Have you tried other hotmail accounts?
[/quote]
You caught me as i was adding an edit..

yes i have tried more hotmail accounts... its the reason it popped up in the 1st place, because my members where complaining to me they wasn't getting an email