How do I prevent mails sent through PHP mail from going to spam

Question

I am using PHP s mail   function to send emails  sendmail process is running   But all the mails are going to spam  in case of gmail   I have tried many tricks that I found on the net but none is working  please tell me about any sure-shot trick

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lt  php   to1    test gmail com    subject    Tester subject            To send HTML mail  the Content-type header must be set       headers     Reply-To  The Sender  lt sender sender com gt  r n         headers     Return-Path  The Sender  lt sender sender com gt  r n         headers     From  sender sender com     r n         headers     Organization  Sender Organization r n        headers     MIME-Version  1 0 r n        headers     Content-type  text html  charset utf-8 r n        headers     X-Priority  3 r n        headers     X-Mailer  PHP   phpversion      r n      gt

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User · Answer

There is no sure shot trick  You need to explore the reasons why your mails are classified as spam  SpamAssassin hase a page describing Some Tips for Legitimate Senders to Avoid False Positives  See also Coding Horror  So You d Like to Send Some Email  Through Code

User · Answer

lt  php   subject    this is a subject    message    testing a message          headers     Reply-To  The Sender  lt sender domain com gt  r n       headers     Return-Path  The Sender  lt sender domain com gt  r n       headers     From  The Sender  lt sender domain com gt  r n        headers     Organization  Sender Organization r n      headers     MIME-Version  1 0 r n      headers     Content-type  text plain  charset iso-8859-1 r n      headers     X-Priority  3 r n      headers     X-Mailer  PHP   phpversion      r n       mail  reciever domain com    subject   message   headers        gt

User · Answer

You must to add a needle headers   Sample code          headers    From  myplace example com r n    headers     Reply-To  myplace2 example com r n    headers     Return-Path  myplace example com r n    headers     CC  sombodyelse example com r n    headers     BCC  hidden example com r n    if   mail  to  subject  message  headers         echo  The email has been sent         else      echo  The email has failed           gt

User · Answer

Try PHP Mailer library  Or Send mail through SMTP filter it before sending it  Also Try to give all details like FROM  return-path

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