Posted by e_matthes on 06/06/07 06:16

On Jun 5, 9:52 am, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@Hotmail.com> wrote:
> <e_matt...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1181061914.124630.303680@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hello everyone,
>
> > I am trying to use the mail() function to send a simple, text-only
> > message. I have two websites hosted by the same company, on different
> > servers. One is old and established, one I am currently developing.
> > I am testing the mail functionality by sending a test message to an
> > email account associated with my old website, and to my hotmail
> > account. The message seems to be sent to both accounts, and I receive
> > the message on my website's email account, but it never reaches my
> > hotmail account.
>
> > Are there any special headers required for hotmail? I've looked
> > around a bit, and can't seem to figure it out. I've even tried
> > including several different headers, but always with the same results
> > - reaches my website's email account, but not my hotmail account. The
> > code I am using to test is:
>
> > <?php
>
> > $body = 'Hello from the internet mail tubes!';
> > $subject = 'Test message';
> > $address = 'working_address@other_domain.com';
> > $address2 = 'working_addr...@hotmail.com';
> > $headers = "From: working_address@this_domain.com";
>
> > mail($address, $subject, $body, $headers) or print "Can not deliver
> > to $address.";
> > print "Done with $address.<br>";
>
> > mail($address2, $subject, $body, $headers) or print "Can not deliver
> > to $address2.";
> > print "Done with $address2.<br>";
>
> > ?>
>
> I think there are some issues with mail(). I'm not sure if thats your
> problem but I ran across a few bugs that it has when I was trying to figure
> out how to mail. They say the pear mail package is much better than this.
>
> The code I used for testing works fine for hotmail
>
> <?php
> echo "Sending Mail...<br/>\n";
> $to = 'testa...@hotmail.com'; // changed
> $subject = 'test';
> $message = 'hello';
> $headers = 'From: webmas...@example.com' . "\r\n" . // Not changed... just
> crap addr but works
> 'Reply-To: webmas...@example.com' . "\r\n" .
> 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
>
> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ? print "Sent mail!" : print "Cannot
> send mail";;
> ?>
>
> You might look at that and see the differences. (as you can see, it uses the
> "\r\n" and some extra info that you might see if it matters or not)


I started receiving the messages on the hotmail account once I added
my domain to the safe list in hotmail. That's a step in the right
direction, but I'd like to figure out what's missing or incorrect
which makes it get filtered out. Any thoughts on required headers or
format for hotmail?

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