Please help!! mail() problems

[Jack Smash]

I am having lots of trouble with the mail function!

I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
folder.

Can someone tell me what type of content I should put in the email to get
around the filter? All my content is so far is a thanks for registering
message - and a link for them to confirm their email address.

Please help!

[Jochen Daum]

Re: Please help!! mail() problems

Hi Jack,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:03:17 -0500, "Jack Smash"
<someone@somewe bsite.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I am having lots of trouble with the mail function!
>
>I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
>site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
>folder.
>
>Can someone tell me what type of content I should put in the email to get
>around the filter? All my content is so far is a thanks for registering
>message - and a link for them to confirm their email address.[/color]

Personalise it, like using their name or username in the email and
maybe what IP they submitted it from.

Please note that some people (the author of that Bayesian Spam
filtering) define Spam as "unsolicite d and automated", so if you send
a confirmation to a user, that is not necessary, offer him a way to
turn it off.

HTH, Jochen
--
Jochen Daum - Cabletalk Group Ltd.
PHP DB Edit Toolkit -- PHP scripts for building
database editing interfaces.
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[Filth]

Re: Please help!! mail() problems

> I am having lots of trouble with the mail function![color=blue]
>
> I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
> site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
> folder.
>
> Can someone tell me what type of content I should put in the email to get
> around the filter? All my content is so far is a thanks for registering
> message - and a link for them to confirm their email address.[/color]

Ensure you are defining the headers. some spam filters will treat emails
with out the correct headers as spam.

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: Please help!! mail() problems

Hello,

On 03/10/2004 05:03 PM, Jack Smash wrote:[color=blue]
> I am having lots of trouble with the mail function!
>
> I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
> site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
> folder.
>
> Can someone tell me what type of content I should put in the email to get
> around the filter? All my content is so far is a thanks for registering
> message - and a link for them to confirm their email address.[/color]

It is possible that the mail function is sending a malformed message to
recipient SMTP address.

In that case you may want to try this class that comes with a wrapper
function named smtp_mail(). It emulates the mail() function but it
assures that the messages are well formed. It also lets you send
messages via direct delivery like sendmail program, so not relaying in
an intermediate server. This way, if the end SMTP server rejects the
messages you can see the reason in the SMTP dialog that is outputted in
debug mode.

It is possible that you have DNS problems and so this will let you track
them.


http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

You also need this.

http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass


--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: Please help!! mail() problems

"Jack Smash" <someone@somewe bsite.com> wrote in message news:<jzK3c.483 0$R37.249@read1 .cgocable.net>. ..[color=blue]
> I am having lots of trouble with the mail function!
>
> I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
> site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
> folder.[/color]

AFAIK, this is a common problem with rigid spam filters like Hotmail
and frequently discussed topic among PHP programmers. Most of the PHP
programmers (IMHO) handle this situation by using PHPMailer
<http://phpmailer.sourc eforge.net/> class; it seems to work all the
time.

--
"I don't believe in the God who doesn't give me food, but shows me
heaven!"--Swami Vivekanandha
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com

[Jack Smash]

Re: Please help!! mail() problems

Thanks everyone for your kind responses! I will try them out and let you
know how it goes.

Thanks again!


"R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah" <ng4rrjanbiah@r ediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:abc4d8b8.0 403102112.3d1cc f04@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> "Jack Smash" <someone@somewe bsite.com> wrote in message[/color]
news:<jzK3c.483 0$R37.249@read1 .cgocable.net>. ..[color=blue][color=green]
> > I am having lots of trouble with the mail function!
> >
> > I simply send a confirmation email to someone who has registered on my
> > site - but thte message usually gets filtered or sent to the bulk mail
> > folder.[/color]
>
> AFAIK, this is a common problem with rigid spam filters like Hotmail
> and frequently discussed topic among PHP programmers. Most of the PHP
> programmers (IMHO) handle this situation by using PHPMailer
> <http://phpmailer.sourc eforge.net/> class; it seems to work all the
> time.
>
> --
> "I don't believe in the God who doesn't give me food, but shows me
> heaven!"--Swami Vivekanandha
> Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com[/color]