Hotmail doesn't like PHP mail

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[iJeep]

I cannot get hotmail to accept mail messages using mail() without it moving it to the Bulk Mail folder. I read at the php.net site that I needed to include the To: information in headers, but that doesn't seem to be working either. Here is my code:

$message = "Hello $tname,<br>
$fname has requested that you take a look at the:<br>
<strong>$part</strong><br>
available from WidgetWorld</a> at:<br>
WidgetURL
<br>
Thank You,<br>
WidgetWorld";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Widgets.com <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$tname." <".$temail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: Widgets.com <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Widgets.com Server";
mail($temail, "From: $fname, To: $tname - $part", $message, $headers);

[transistor]

Hello iJeep (cool nickname!)

Ok, the mail function works like this:
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers)

$to = "someone <some@email>";
$subject = "You've got mail!";
$message = "Hello someone.";
$headers = "From: [e-mail]\n"; // I suggest you try using only \n
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: me <[e-mail]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: My mailer";

Although probably Hotmail believes that your message is spam because of something else, maybe the text you use in the message triggers the spam filters.

Hope this helps, good luck!

[andreasfriedrich]

I suggest you try using only \n

I suggest you stick with the standards and use CRLF instead of only \n (RFC1425 [faqs.org], RFC822 [faqs.org]).

3.1.2. STRUCTURE OF HEADER FIELDS
Once a field has been unfolded, it may be viewed as being composed of a field-name followed by a colon (":"), followed by a field-body, and terminated by a carriage-return/line-feed.

Andreas

[iJeep]

I used the method in mesage 2 and it worked. May have just been because It got rid of the second "To:" field.

Thanks for the help

[andreasfriedrich]

transistor´s advice was great. A lot of people are lazy and use just \n and a lot of SMTP implementations accept that. I was just trying to raise awareness of what the standards suggest.

As soft laws you are not required to follow standards. There is no immediate sanction. If you decide not to follow them, you are barred from complaining that something´s not working.

Many people and even experienced people, do not even realize what a standard is or can do for them.

Brett on "Posting Code" [webmasterworld.com]

Quoting standards again ;)

Andreas

[bird]

Note that the '\r\n' standard is only really relevant for SMTP connections. In this case here, the documentation of the PHP mail() function will tell you whether it converts single newlines for you automatically (as every decent library mail function should do), or if you need to include the full brass yourself.

[andreasfriedrich]

I hadn´t even considered that this could be PHP´s job.

But as it stands PHP won´t help you:

You must use \r\n to seperate headers, although some Unix mail transfer agents may work with just a single newline (\n).

[php.net ]

To be on the save side you should use \x0d\x0a instead of the logical \r\n ([webmasterworld.com ]).

Andreas

[transistor]

Glad it worked iJeep.
andreasfriedrich, you are absolutely right, one must stick to the standards.