2008/9/12 Ross McKay <rosko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:55:03 +0100, Tom Chubb wrote:
>
> >I have generally been using the PHP mail function for sending emails from
> >contact forms on websites, but have recently had problems with a lot of
> >mails being delivered to junk/spam folders. [...]
>
> If you don't end up using PHPMailer, make sure that you are setting
> these fields properly or SpamAssassin et al will suspect your emails as
> being SPAM.
>
> From: a valid (looking) email address
> Date: the send date in RFC-2822 format, date('r')
> Message-ID: <some unique ID>
> Content-Type: whatever is appropriate for your email (e.g. text/plain)
>
> Good idea:
> X-Mailer: 'PHP/' . phpversion()
>
> To test, send some emails to yourself at an account that has
> SpamAssassin and look at the headers to see what SpamAssassin says as it
> should indicate what it doesn't like about your emails. Try this first,
> before messing with the headers above.
> --
> Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
> "You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam." - Pythons
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Thanks Ross,
I have read somewhere before about creating a message id with the date&time
and a random number.
Still I think I'm going to be ending up down the phpmailer route!
T
