Re: Confirmation email caught by spam filter

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, LAMP <lamp@afan.net> wrote: > hi, > I use the following code (from php.net) to send confirmation email to the > person that just created an account: > >  $headers =    "MIME-Versin: 1.0\n" . >                "Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; > format=flowed\n" . >                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" . >                "Reply-To: Orders <lamp@afan.net>\n". >                "From: Orders <orders@mydomain.com>\n" . >                "X-Mailer: PHP" . phpversion();           mail($to, > $subject, > $body, $headers); > > > $subject is something like "[MyDomain] Your new account", and $body is just > few plain text details  about person who created the form. > > The same code I use to reset a password: a visitor enters his/her email > address and the link with session ID is sent to entered email address. > > The problem is the confirmation emails and "reset password" emails are very > often caught  by email filter and finish in Spam/Junk folder, or even > stopped by ISP. What am I doing wrong, or what to do to improve the code? > > Also, how can I get bounced emails? > > Thanks, > > Afan > > What mail program is PHP using? Did you check out the $additional_parameters (5th parameter) for the mail() function? If you're using sendmail and the envelope from address is 'nobody@mydomain.com', you can pretty much assume they will get dumped as SPAM regardless of what you set in the From: header. Andrew