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

User · Accepted 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

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

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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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fromMail    set your from mail    boundary   str replace          date  l jS  of F Y h i s A      subjectMail    New design submitted by      userDisplayName     contentHtml     lt div gt Dear Admin lt br   gt  lt br   gt The following design is submitted by     userName     lt br   gt  lt br   gt  lt a href     sdLink    gt  lt b gt Click here lt  b gt  lt  a gt  to check the design  lt  div gt     contentHtml      lt div gt  lt a href     imageUrl    gt  lt img src     imageUrl    width  250  height  95  border  0  alt  my picture  gt  lt  a gt  lt  div gt     contentHtml      lt div gt Name      name   lt br   gt Description       description    lt  div gt      headersMail        headersMail     From       fromMail     r n     Reply-To       fromMail     r n    headersMail     Return-Path       fromMail     r n    headersMail     MIME-Version  1 0      r n    headersMail     Content-Type  multipart alternative  boundary          boundary       r n r n    headersMail     --     boundary     r n    headersMail     Content-Type  text html  charset ISO-8859-1      r n    headersMail     Content-Transfer-Encoding  base64      r n r n    headersMail    rtrim chunk split base64 encode  contentHtml      try       if  mail  toMail   subjectMail       headersMail              status    success            msg    Mail sent successfully          else            status    failed            msg    Unable to send mail            catch Exception  e         msg    e- gt getMessage        This works fine for me It includes mail with image and a link and works for all sorts of mail ids  The clue is to use all the header perfectly   If you are testing it from localhost  then set the below before checking   How to set mail send from localhost xampp    comment everything in D  xampp sendmail sendmail ini and mention the below under    sendmail   smtp server smtp gmail com smtp port 587 error logfile error log debug logfile debug log auth username yourmailid domain com auth password your-mail-password force sender yourmailid domain com In D  xampp php php ini a  Under    mail function   SMTP   smtp gmail com  smtp port   587   b  set sendmail from   yourmailid domain com c  uncomment sendmail path      D  xamp sendmail sendmail exe   -t  Hence it should be look like below  sendmail path      D  xamp sendmail sendmail exe   -t    d  comment sendmail path  D  xamp mailtodisk mailtodisk exe  Hence it should be look like below   sendmail path  D  xamp mailtodisk mailtodisk exe    e  mail add x header Off

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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

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