How do I prevent mails sent through PHP mail() from going to spam?

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Partyboy picture Partyboy · May 9, 2011 · Viewed 108.4k times · Source

I am using PHP's mail() function to send emails (sendmail process is running). But all the mails are going to spam (in case of gmail). I have tried many tricks that I found on the net but none is working, please tell me about any sure-shot trick.

Answer

user744116 picture user744116 · May 9, 2011

You must to add a needle headers:

Sample code : 

$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "BCC: [email protected]\r\n";

if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) {
   echo "The email has been sent!";
   } else {
   echo "The email has failed!";
   }
?>

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