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William
William

Reputation: 6610

PHP Email Form, Executes but Only Sends to 'Some' Email Services

I'm developing a simple email contact form which currently executes without errors and displays the success message I added.

However after testing it, the email is only received by a Microsoft Outlook address I have.

Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo don't receive the message, and it was Gmail I was aiming for mostly.

I have checked the Spam/Junk folders in each case and no sign.

If anyone has any ideas why this is the case it would be great. I didn't post code as it does work in at least one instance, but here is the format for the 'headers' if that helps.

 $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
 @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 374

Answers (3)

andrewsi
andrewsi

Reputation: 10732

If the same code works to send email to one recipient, but not another, then the problem is with the recipients.

I suspect that it's because the recipients' email providers think your emails look like spam.

I'd recommend getting rid of the Reply-to header, and putting the address in the From field, for one thing - basically, the more you can do to make your emails look less like spam, the better.

If that doesn't work, try sending as limited a message as you can using your code - no extra header information added, no links in the text - and if that works, slowly start adding things back in until you stop getting the messages.

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Willis
Andrew Willis

Reputation: 2349

It could be possible that the IP you are sending from has been blacklisted (if your server is on a shared IP, somebody using that IP has sent some bad stuff).

Try from a different IP address if possible, if it works then you know the problem and can complain to your webhost.

Upvotes: 0

Rinzler
Rinzler

Reputation: 2116

then add the email whom u want to mail either it is gmail or yahoo to field of $email_to where u have hard coded it

or if you are passing you email dynmaically from a form then set it has

$email_to = $_post['email'];

then add it to your header then it should go to the recipient .

Upvotes: 0

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