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Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk [message #175890 is a reply to message #175875]

Fri, 04 November 2011 00:42

richard

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On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:48:55 +0000, Newbie wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have built a simple form on my website for people to enter an email
> address before downloading a brochure. Every time the brochure is
> downloaded I want to send an email to myself to keep track of the
> people that have downloaded it. Everything works fine except for the
> fact that when I recieve the email it goes straight into my junk email
> cos its classed as spam. What can I do to prevent this.
> Here is the code I have used
>
> "<?php
> $firstname = $_REQUEST['firstname'];
> $secondname = $_REQUEST['secondname'];
> $email_from = $_REQUEST['email'];
> if (empty($firstname)||empty($secondname)||empty($email_from)){
> ?><h1 align = "center">One or more of the fields on the form has not
> been completed.</h1><br>
> <p align = "center">Please use the back button on your browser<br>
> and complete the form correctly</p>
> <?php
> }
> elseif (filter_var($email_from, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
> ini_set("sendmail_from","myemail(at)myaddress(dot)co(dot)uk");
> $email_to="myemail(at)myemailaddress(dot)co(dot)uk";
> $name=$_REQUEST['firstname']." ".$_REQUEST['secondname'];
> $message=$name." has just downloaded the brochure from your website.
> Their email address is ".$email_from;
> $email_subject="A brochure has been downoaded from your website.";
> $headers="From:$email_from.\n";"Reply-To:$email_from.\n";
> $sent=mail($email_to,$email_subject,$message,$headers,"-f".$email_from);
> if($sent){
> header("Location:http://www.mywebsite/pdf/brochure.php");}
> else{
> echo "Request failed";}
> }
> else {
> ?><h1 align = "center">The format of the email address entered is not
> correct.</h1><br>
> <p align = "center">Please use the back button on your browser<br>
> and complete the form correctly</p>
> <?php
> }
> ?>"

One possibility is that your IP is on somebody's black list.
But your mail client should have the option as treating that domain/IP as
"not spam".
Check in your options.

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[Message index]

		email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Anonymous on Thu, 03 November 2011 17:48
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Doug Miller on Thu, 03 November 2011 17:58
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Michael Vilain on Thu, 03 November 2011 18:32
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Doug Miller on Thu, 03 November 2011 20:20
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Tim Streater on Thu, 03 November 2011 20:04
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: Geoff Muldoon on Thu, 03 November 2011 22:52
		Re: email sent from webpage is classed as junk By: richard on Fri, 04 November 2011 00:42

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