[tork]

I have the following code that emails to a hotmail user:

$subject = "Email Subject";

$header = "From: Some Person<email@somewhere.com>\r\n" .
'Reply-To: Some Person <email@somewhere.com>' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-Type: html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ­ 8bit\r\n\r\n"; 

$message = "Email Message";

$sendmail = mail("user@hotmail.com",$subject,$message,$header);

This mail function sends emails to the hotmail user, but straight to hotmail's junk mail function. I have read that only html files will work, so I changed content-type from 'text/html' to 'html'. this seems wrong as it has attached a file to the email, which is most likely the email message. Also, I have read that "\r\n" may be a problem, so i changed it to "\n", still no results. All of these changes have not worked. So how do I avoid the dreaded junk mail function of email servers? yahoo and gmail works fine and my domain name is not blacklisted.

[snoj]

Email is marked as spam because of where it comes from or from the content that it contains.

Off the top of my head I'd guess that either it's seeing the X-mailer thing or the content you're sending in the email.

[tork]

how do I state the x Mailer, say if I make it as sent from Outlook or something like that. and how do I change the content type? is it text/html? or text\html? at the moment my message is sent as an attachment, which is not suitable for my needs...

[snoj]

Well the SMTP says that messages should use CR+LF (\r+\n) to specify new lines.

Did you even read your code? The X-Mailer flag is right there.

"text/html" is the proper way to state the html mime type in the Content-type flag.

[cipherence]

some times smtp servers will also forward emails to junk mail because the sender , (the one logged into smtp server) isn't Registered for that server.

[tork]

I am still unable to send email's to a hotmail account. I have contacted hotmail and still awaiting a reply to see whether it has something to do with their end, but I dont think it would. My code is now this:

$subject = "Email Subject";

$header = "From: Some Person<email@somewhere.com>\r\n" .
'Reply-To: Some Person <email@somewhere.com>' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

$message = "Email Message<br />
<br />
Regards,
<br />
Tork< br/>";

$sendmail = mail("user@hotmail.com",$subject,$message,$header);

I am stuck, so stuck it's not funny! ARGH!

[Dark_Nexus]

$header = "From: Some Person<email@somewhere.com>\r\n" .
'Reply-To: Some Person <email@somewhere.com>' . "\r\n" .

is bogus, and the server knows it, that's why it's getting trashed. change it up.

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Email is marked as spam because of where it comes from or from the content that it contains.

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some times smtp servers will also forward emails to junk mail because the sender