mail() not delivering to gmail or hotmail

[jakebur01]

ok... my form that I made will not deliver to hotmail or gmail...

 

What is the problem??

 

<?php

$name = $_POST['name'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$feedback = $_POST['message'];


$name = trim($name);
$company = trim($company);
$phone = trim($phone);
$email = trim($email);
$feedback = trim($feedback);

$toaddress = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Website Form - mysite.com';
$mailcontent = 'Customer name: '.$name."\n"
.'Customer company: '.$company."\n"
.'Customer e-mail: '.$email."\n"
.'Customer phone: '.$phone."\n"
."Customer comments: \n".$feedback."\n";

// header information not including sendTo and Subject
// these all go in one variable.  First, include From:

$fromaddress = 'From: [email protected]';

mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress);

?>

[JustinK101]

Probably not related to php, but the SMTP server your trying to send the mail from. Also, perhaps your site is on the spam filter of yahoo and google?

[jakebur01]

The address i'm trying to send to is a centurytel account. If I log into the preferences... Could I just allow the server address???.... What do I type in for it to allow?? Would it be like an ip address or something?

[jakebur01]

i turned the filter off. The mail does not seem to be coming through. But, the e-mail is able to come through on one of my accounts.

 

What else could I do to allow the mail to come through?

 

Thanks,

 

Jake

[per1os]

www.php.net/mail

 

look at the mail() function.

 

Look at the mail headers, I suggest using almost all the headers you can to prove its not a fake email.

 

Also note the "-f" parameter to show who the email "came from"

[jakebur01]

i am still not having any luck. Could you please post an example that you know works?

[per1os]

<?php
$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, '[email protected]');
?> 

 

http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/email/anatomy.shtml

 

For more indepth explanation about mail headers etc.