Re: Getting mail() to work with YAHOO! and other mail services

Check the carpets destined for SPAM mail in the mailboxes. Yahoo! has a filter to avoid this SPAM or like SPAM messages, as Hotmail has it. If this is what happens to you, you should talk with the Yahoo! and Hotmail people and other mail providers in wich this problem exists. (Some times happens to me with aol too.) Mario Soto mario_s@amigo.net.gt -.-.-.- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Clockedile" <rclocked@maine.rr.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 3:05 PM Subject: [PHP] Getting mail() to work with YAHOO! and other mail services > I have a script that is intended to email a user a new password, when they > have forgotten their old one. The script works perfectly, except when being > sent to my YAHOO! email address (and I am told the same is true for > Hotmail). There is no error message, and as far as the mail server is > concerned, the email is sent without a problem. It just never shows up on > the other end. > > The script is very simple: > > mail($useremail, $subject, $message, "From: > customerservice@essaytech.com\r\n", "Reply-To: > customerservice@essaytech.com"); > > I have tried various header configurations that I have found in the > documentation, and on other sites. For example, this send_mail() function > (which I couldn't get to send out any messages, at all). > > > send_mail("member@essaytech.com", $memberEMAIL,"Essaytech Executives", > $list, $subject, $usermessage); > > function send_mail($sendername, $senderemail, $contactname, > $contactemail, $subject, $message) > { > $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; > $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; > charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n"; > $headers .= "To: ".$contactname." < ".$contactemail." > >\r\n"; > $headers .= "From: ".$sendername."< ".$senderemail." > >\r\n"; > > > I am running PHP 4.2 on Windows XP, on a shared infrastructure at a web > host. I am relatively new to PHP (a couple of weeks), so any help that > anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > Rob Clockedile > rclockedile@essaytech.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php