Mail going into junk box

[billy nugz]

Very new to php and dont really have a good understanding of it. but here is a code I use to send simple text based email. But this keeps going into the junk box and I have no idea why?

[code]<?php
/******************************************************************************\

*******************************************************************************/
/*******************************************************************************/
// Necessary Variables:

$TO = "[email protected]";
// En: E-Mail of mail recipient.
// Fr: E-Mail pour l'envoie.

$DEFAULT_EXIT_PAGE = "confirm.htm";
// En: exit page.
// Fr: page de sortie.

// End  Necessary Variables section
/******************************************************************************/

$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

$message = "";

while (list($key, $val) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$message .= "$key : $val\n";
}

$message .= "From: $name <$email>\n";

mail($TO, $subject, $message, $headers);
// En : Send mail
// Fr : Envoi du mail

if(! $exit_page)
$exit_page = $DEFAULT_EXIT_PAGE;

Header("Location: ".$exit_page);
// Exit -> $exit_page

?> [/code]

Is there a better code I could use. I tryed to get a grasp on the php mailer tut and got real lost

Any help would be great. My thanks in advance.

[ted_chou12]

i think it depends on your mail company, if you dont have the sender email address in your contact list, they automatically put it into junk box, so you need to add the address into your contact list or something.
Try that
Ted

[billy nugz]

That sound about right...I guess ??? but how would I go about doing that ?

[Psycho]

If you look at the manual for mail() you will see several comments at the bottom concerning different header parameters that can help avoid your mail from being flagged as spam: http://us2.php.net/mail

[billy nugz]

So somthing like this ? If so would I have to change fromaddress?

[code]<?php
function send_mail($emailaddress, $fromaddress, $emailsubject, $body)
{
  $eol="\r\n";
  $mime_boundary=md5(time());
 
  # Common Headers
  $headers .= 'From: MyName<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;
  $headers .= 'Reply-To: MyName<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;
  $headers .= 'Return-Path: MyName<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;    // these two to set reply address
  $headers .= "Message-ID: <".$now." TheSystem@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">".$eol;
  $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol;          // These two to help avoid spam-filters

  # Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers
  $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol;
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol;

  $msg = "";
/******************************************************************************\

*******************************************************************************/
/*******************************************************************************/
// Necessary Variables:

$TO = "[email protected]";
// En: E-Mail of mail recipient.
// Fr: E-Mail pour l'envoie.

$DEFAULT_EXIT_PAGE = "confirm.htm";
// En: exit page.
// Fr: page de sortie.

// End  Necessary Variables section
/******************************************************************************/



$message = "";

while (list($key, $val) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$message .= "$key : $val\n";
}

$message .= "From: $Name <$Email>\n";

mail($TO, $subject, $message, $headers);
// En : Send mail
// Fr : Envoi du mail

if(! $exit_page)
$exit_page = $DEFAULT_EXIT_PAGE;

Header("Location: ".$exit_page);
// Exit -> $exit_page

?> [/code]

Thanks again guys