Posted by sunaram patir on 01/20/06 17:23

i have en experience of getting blocked by yahoo when i didn't use the
extra headers

On 1/20/06, Weber Sites LTD <berber@weber-sites.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I'm trying to understand why this is good from a SPAM point of view.
> I'm guessing that anyone can just add this when sending his own spam no?
>
> berber
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:37 PM
> To: Weber Sites LTD
> Cc: 'Thomas Bonham'; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Email Form
>
> On Thu, January 19, 2006 3:25 pm, Weber Sites LTD wrote:
> > Check out :
> >
> > http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-336.html
> >
> > http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-1557.html
> >
> > In general you need to add the From header :
> >
> > Mail($To,$subject,$body,"From:user@domain.com");
>
> In the ideal world, you also will want to upgrade and use the FIFTH
> (optional) argument to http://php.net/mail and provide a Return-path:
> header that matches your From: line with "-fuser@example.com"
>
> Otherwise, you lose points in spam filters, and some recipients will
> probably not ever see the email.
>
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