PHP - Php Mail() Always Appearing In Spam [gmail Hotmail + More]

HI, i have a problem, a big one.
I used a php script to send some info from my html forms to my gmail. So it functions easy, somebody fills out the form and he click send, after that, his information is sent to me on my gmail, and i can work with it later. Now stupid google have some new filters (from year 2014 ) and it treats some of those mails as spam. Code is written in the way that allows me to get those mails as it is sent from the user himself, from his email. Can anybody correct my script so it won't be treated as a spam, because i know it is possible but don't know how...
here is the code - https://gist.github....67145d500c5cf47
  // Receiving variables

Has anyone ever used these. I want to develop a tool so users of my site can invite there friends.

Using the attached code below I'm sending an HTML email using PHP. It works fine, except with Gmail. If the email is sent to a Gmail account the email contents are blank and sender is unknown. I've looked around and it seems there is some widespread issue but i haven't found an answer/solution. Any help or light shed on this would be great.


<?PHP
//lots of stuff before this including variable setting, which all are working properly

$to = $email;
$subject = 'Your claim is in process!';
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
$headers = "From: The Insurance Agency\r\nReply-To: info@XXXXXXXXXX.com";
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";
ob_start(); 
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear <?PHP echo $fname?>,
Thank you for submitting your claim on our website. We're sorry to hear about your loss on <?PHP echo $dateofloss ?>; our office has received your information and will contact you as soon as possible.Sincerely,
Brian R Miller, Priciple
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<img src="http://beta.XXXXXXX.com/img/uniform/emailhead.gif" alt="" />
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; margin:15px 0 5px 0;">Dear <?PHP echo $fname ?>,</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; margin:0;">Thank you for submitting your claim on our website. We're sorry to hear about your loss on <?PHP echo $dateofloss ?>; our office has received your information and will contact you as soon as possible.</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; margin:20px 0 0 200px;">Sincerely,</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0 0 200px;"><img src="http://beta.XXXXXX.com/img/uniform/briansig.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px; margin:0px 0 0 200px;">Brian R Miller, priciple</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px; margin:200px 0 0 0">This email has been sent by an automated service</p>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?PHP

$message = ob_get_clean();


mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Here is one of my emails.

Delivered-To: jason@gmail.com
Received: by 10.204.57.134 with SMTP id c6cs22321bkh;
        Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:23:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.101.168.12 with SMTP id v12mr3751263ano.48.1315923810914;
        Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <contact@big.com>
Received: from big.com (big.com [173.0.59.100])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c19si889696anj.173.2011.09.13.07.23.29;
        Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of contact@big.com designates 173.0.59.100 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.0.59.100;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of contact@big.com designates 173.0.59.100 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=contact@big.com; dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=@big.com
Received: by big.com (Postfix, from userid 33)
   id 1BDCE2F4041A; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signatu v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=big.com; s=mail;
   t=1315923800; bh=ysNGlrscqmqCPbqxJlWWHLaW3SU6MgDVQCze+cevPS4=;
   h=To:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Sender:From:Reply-To:
    Content-Type;
   b=PDPCRvKGQRP3LeeDNhZQwbX6aMXOZEyqRXV1E+kuDDq05NYRIrmJCcQRhwEIaSosh
    yoZ0pF5wtrXjgY1KA0hgee7qzSVDhweguBfOydn1qE6nsL1pq CQgsHmtvu9dwPGw9z
    uUEHM9bg5DwiG0RT5KLYf4oZTJmJpc8n2oyK26/I=
To: jason@gmail.com
Subject: Closed Beta Invitation from Jason Gordon
Message-ID: <87847890-050333@big.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:17 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: PHP-5.3.8
X-Sender: "big" <contact@big.com>
X-Priority: 3
Organization: big
Errors-To: contact@big.com
Sender: contact@big.com
From: "big" <contact@big.com>
Reply-To: "big" <contact@big.com>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=87847890

--48673093
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
      
<a href="http://big.com/u/jasonGordon?utm_source=beta_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=referer_name&utm_campaign=join_beta" alt="Jason Gordon's profile" title="Jason Gordon's profile">Jason Gordon</a> invited you to join the newest community of entreprenuers and investors, big.
               
Why participate in our closed beta? Here you will be able to find, research and connect with entrepreneurs or investor so much easier than ever before.
               
You will be one of the first people to ever lay eyes on our exclusive software!
               
Sign up by clicking <a href="http://big.com/join?9b782e=&key=7RG5poe9lgxmUSIcQTPji8EtFMnXyOYW3Cf&utm_source=beta_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=sign_up&utm_campaign=join_beta" title="big Beta Referral">here</a>
               
If the link does not work, go to <a href="http://big.com" title="big">big.com</a>, click "Join big" and enter your closed beta access key.
               
Your closed beta access key is: 7RG5poe9lgxmUSIcQTPji8EtFMnXyOYW3Cf
               
Please leave us feedback so that we can improve our software.
               
big Team

--48673093
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
      <title>Closed Beta Invitation</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <table width="500px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="13" style="border: 1px solid #e7e7e7;">
         <tr>
            <td>
               <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="480px" style="border: 1px solid #999999;">
                  <tr>
                     <td bgcolor="#489fcc" cellspacing="15" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #999999; border-top: 0; border-left: 0; border-right: 0; font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: bold; color: white;" width="480px">
                        big
                     </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                     <td>
                        <table style="line-height: 26px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;" width="100%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0">
                           <tr>
                              <td width="100%">
                                 <table style="line-height: 26px; text-align: justify;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                    <tr>
                                       <td width="100%">
                                          <a href="http://big.com/u/jasonGordon?utm_source=beta_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=referer_name&utm_campaign=join_beta" alt="Jason Gordon's profile" title="Jason Gordon's profile">Jason Gordon</a> invited you to join the newest community of entreprenuers and investors, big.
                                          
                                          Why participate in our closed beta? Here you will be able to find, research and connect with entrepreneurs or investor so much easier than ever before.
                                          
                                          You will be one of the first people to ever lay eyes on our exclusive software!
                                       </td>
                                    </tr>
                                 </table>
                              </td>
                           </tr>
                           <tr>
                              <td align="center" width="100%">
                                 <table style="border-top: 1px solid #b8b8b8; border-bottom: 1px solid #b8b8b8;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5">
                                    <tr>
                                       <td width="100%" align="center">
                                       Sign up by clicking <a href="http://big.com/join?9b782e=&key=7RG5poe9lgxmUSIcQTPji8EtFMnXyOYW3Cf&utm_source=beta_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=sign_up&utm_campaign=join_beta" title="big Beta Referral">here</a>
                                       </td>
                                    </tr>
                                 </table>
                              </td>
                           </tr>
                           <tr>
                              <td width="100%" style="text-align: justify;">
                                 If the link does not work, go to <a href="http://big.com" title="big">big.com</a>, click "Join big" and enter your closed beta access key.
                                 
                                 Your closed beta access key is:
                              </td>
                           </tr>
                           <tr>
                              <td align="center" width="100%">
                                 <table bgcolor="#e6e6e6" style="border: 1px solid #b8b8b8;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5">
                                    <tr>
                                       <td width="100%" align="center">
                                          7RG5poe9lgxmUSIcQTPji8EtFMnXyOYW3Cf
                                       </td>
                                    </tr>
                                 </table>
                              </td>
                           </tr>
                           <tr>
                              <td width="100%">
                                 Please leave us feedback so that we can improve our software.
                              </td>
                           </tr><tr>
                              <td width="100%">
                                 big Team
                              </td>
                           </tr>
                        </table>
                     </td>
                  </tr>
               </table>
            </td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </body>
   
</html>
--48673093--


My headers function is...

Code: [Select]
function mail_header ($type, $random_hash)
{
$type = (int)$type;

if ($type === 0)
{
$boundary = $random_hash;
$x_mailer = phpversion();
$time_stamp = date("r");

$headers  = 'Message-ID: <'.$boundary.'-050333@big.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Date: ' . $time_stamp . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP-' . $x_mailer . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Sender: "big" <contact@big.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Priority: 3' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Organization: big' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Errors-To: contact@big.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Sender: contact@big.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: "big" <contact@big.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: "big" <contact@big.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Return-Path: "big" <contact@big.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=' . $boundary . "\r\n";
}

return $headers;
}

I'm using a simple form to grab an email address and send the person who signs up and automatic response.  It was working for a while and now it's not.  Not sure what happened.  My hosting company told me to look into my headers.  Can anyone help?  Here is my code.

Thanks,

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<?php

/* Set e-mail recipient */
$subject = "Sign Up";
$headers = "From: admin@xxx.com" . "\r\n" . "CC: admin@xxx.com";

/* Check all form inputs using check_input function */
$sign_up_email_address = check_input($_POST['sign_up_email_address'], "Please enter your email address.");

/* If e-mail is not valid show error message */
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $sign_up_email_address)) {

show_error("E-mail address not valid");

}

/* Let's prepare the message for the e-mail */
$response_message = "Sample Message";

/* Send the message using mail() function */
mail($sign_up_email_address, $subject, $response_message, $headers);

/* Functions we used */
function check_input($data, $problem='') {

$data = trim($data);
$data = stripslashes($data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);

if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0) {

show_error($problem);
}

return $data;

}

function show_error($myError) {
?>

<?php echo $myError; ?>
Thank you,

I'm using the php mail function and sending to Gmail accounts it shows "Unknown Sender"

This is my header:
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$headers = "From: XXXXX\r\nReply-To: XXXX@XXXXX.com";
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset='iso-8859-1' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";

I read somewhere that removing the "\r" would work but no luck...

any  help would be awesome

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I've just setup an Apache server with a basic LAMP stack. We've decided to use Google Apps (gmail) as our mail server / host. So our ubuntu server is only serving up HTTP files.

Because the server is not configured as a mail server, and we're using Gmail for our MX and mail servers, how do I go about using sending out emails via PHP on the Apache Box?

I've tried installing Postfix, and configuring using this tutorial, and still a no go.
http://www.blogternals.com/2009/04/30/postfix-google-apps-gmail-smtp-relay/

Any Ideas?

The script below works but it goes straight to the junk folder only since i added the parts below to the form. (the form is in another file)
How do i stop it from going to the junk folder.

Quote

$error = $_GET['error'];
$httpagent = getenv ('HTTP_USER_AGENT');
$url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];


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<?php
 require_once "Mail.php";
  $optional = $_POST['optional'];
$error = $_POST['error'];
$url = $_POST['url'];
$httpagent = $_POST['browser'];
$ip = isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : '';
 
 $from = "Web server <removed>";
 $to = "Admin <removed>";
 $subject = "Someone has submitted an error.";
 $body = "Someone has submitted an error.\n".
"Error: $error\n".
"URL: $url\n".
"Web browser: $httpagent\n".
"Anything else you want to add?: $optional\n".
"IP: $ip\n";
 
 $host = "removed";
 $username = "removed";
 $password = "removed";
 
 $headers = array ('From' => $from,
   'To' => $to,
   'Subject' => $subject);
 $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
   array ('host' => $host,
     'auth' => true,
     'username' => $username,
     'password' => $password));
 
 $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
 
 if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
   echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  } else {
   header('Location: thank-you.html');
  }
 ?>

Hello everyone,

I have website that uses the php(mail) function to notify users when something happens on their account.  The site was created for a school district so all the users are district employees where their incoming email is subject to pretty strict spam filtering.  I am using headers to indicate to the recipient that the email is coming from support@mysite.com, but I guess the mail servers see past this and recognize that it's coming from a php(mail) function.  Because of this, all of the emails being sent are being blocked by the filter.  I've tried adding all emails coming from an address that ends with "@mysite.com" but this doesn't work.  This is what the addresses look like that the spam filter is actually seeing:
 
elmas156@p3nlhftpg049.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net

And I can't just add a single address to the white list because each time an email is sent, the letters and numbers after "@" and before "secureserver.net" are different.  Here's another address that shows up:

elmas156@p3nlhg331.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net

here is the code that I'm using to send the emails:
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<?php

$sendto = "$email";
$emailsubject = "Testing Message Report For $cdate.";


$emailmessage = "This is a test email.";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: MySite.com Report <support@mysite.com>' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($sendto, $emailsubject, $emailmessage, $headers);
?>

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do to make every email sent to be recognized by the spam filter as coming from the same email instead of a bunch of random ones?  I hope this is making sense to someone because it was very difficult for me to explain in writing.  Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

I have a notification system that notifies users of new comments, inside the email I have images, some of the logo, some of different people, everything shows up fine on my computer (yahoo email), however in the iPhones email application no images show up, there are just the blue squares with the question marks in them. I'm not sure what I'm missing.


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$from = "Kithell <notifications@kithell.com>";
$headers = "From:" . $from ."\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";


$subject = name($from_id, 'fl').$action;

$message = '<html><body>
<style>@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */


.e-container {
background-color: #FFF;position: relative;width: 90%;min-height:1px;margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;
}
.e-container .e-m-header {
padding: 2px;
background-image: url(http://www.kithell.com/assets/tall-grey-header.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-position: bottom;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
.e-container p {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666;
vertical-align: text-top;
display: inline-block;
}
.e-container .e-usr-photo {
display: inline-block;
margin: 10px;
float: left;
background-color: #F4F4F4;
}
.e-container p a {
font-weight: bold;
color: #3F60A3;
text-decoration: underline;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 5px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
.e-container .e-quotes {
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #999;
font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
display: block;
padding: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 75px;
margin-top:10px;

}
.e-container .e-message {
font-size: 13px;
color: #333;
padding: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 10px;
clear: none;
display: inline;
}</style>
<div class="e-container"><div class="e-m-header"><img src="http://www.kithell.com/assets/kithell-logo.png" /></div><img class="e-usr-photo" src="http://www.kithell.com/'.photo($from_id, 55).'" /><br /><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kithell.com/#/profile&id='.$from_id.'">'.name($from_id, "fl").' </a> '.$action.'<div class="e-quotes">"<p class="e-message">'.nl2br(htmlentities(stripslashes($message))).'</p>"</div></p></div></body></html>';

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

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I am writing a google contact API to get users contacts, I get everything back except for the email address of the contact.

Anyone know how to get the contacts email address?

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<?php
class gdata{
private $headers;
private $googleAuth = 'http://www.google.com/mate/feeds';
private $google = 'http://www.google.com/mate/feeds/contacts/default/full';
public $token;
public function headers(){
$this->headers['GData-Version'] = '3.0';
$this->headers['Authorization'] = "AuthSub token=\"$this->token\"";
$this->headers['Content-Type'] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
$this->headers['Host'] = "www.google.com";
$this->headers['User-Agent'] = "php/".phpversion();
$this->headers['Accept'] = "text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2";
$this->headers['Connection'] = "keep-alive";
}
public function request_contacts($email){
$ch = curl_init();
$headers = array();
foreach($this->headers as $k => $v){
$headers[] = "$k: $v";
}
$url = preg_replace("/\[email_address\]/", $email, $this->google);
echo $url;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->google);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$opt = curl_exec($ch);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($opt);
header("Content-type: text/plain");
foreach($xml->entry as $user){
//echo $user['link']
}
print_r($xml->entry[5]);
}
public function auth(){
$next =  'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?a=getContacts';
header("Location: https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?next=".urlencode($next)."&scope=".urlencode($this->googleAuth)."&session=1&secure=0");
}
}

$gAPI = new gdata();

if($_GET['a'] == 'getContacts'){
$gAPI->token = $_GET['token'];
$gAPI->headers();
$gAPI->request_contacts('untuned20@gmail.com');
}else{
$gAPI->auth();
}

?>

Hi   Could you please tell me how can i implement gmail api to send email to user contact on behalf of that user.