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Trying to spoof headers is likely the worst thing you can do. I can pretty much guarantee that it has nothing to do with your headers. I have considered warning users who provide a email address to add us to their address book or check their junk folder - but this just seems unprofessional to me - it may be that i have to resort to this.Īs for becoming Sender Score Certified - its very unlikely that i can justify the cost of this when considering the low volume and purpose of these emails.Įmail Deliverability is closer to an art than a science.
#AN EMAIL KEEPS GOING TO JUNK IN HOTMAIL UPDATE#
Update 2: i should have mentioned that the emails are just a registration confirmation to validate the email address the user signed up with - no mailshots etc so our volume is extremely low. I am starting to believe that it may not be the headers afterall. Update: as per changelog's suggestion i have tried adding the MS headers to the PEAR::mail class and i have tried replacing PEAR::mail with PHPMailer (with & without the extra headers) - they all end up in the junk folder. PEAR::mail Received: from apache by with local (Exim 4.67)Ĭould these small differences in the headers be the cause or am i looking in the wrong place ? i knew this might be problematic hence why i chose to use the PEAR::mail class rather than rolling my own but now i really have no idea where to go with this, any help would be greatly appreciated. Outlook Received: from ( helo=simber)īy with local (Exim 4.67) and in the Received: section of the headers.the order of the From: and To: headers are reversed.The only other differences that i can see are X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V.3350 Thread-Index: Ack6CWSQlgV8s6+6SWyifka2NNpB7g= Outlook headers (not in PEAR::mail headers) X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 PEAR::mail headers (not in outlook headers) X-PHP-Script: for So i compared the headers from the email sent from PEAR::mail against the headers sent by Outlook and there are only a few differences - i have only listed the differences to save space (and peoples eyes) To test this theory i set up outlook to send email via the same address that PEAR::mail uses and sent a quick test - it delivered straight to my inbox Having checked all of the above i can only think of one other reason - incorrectly formatted headers ? incorrect reverse DNS for main IP of the server.Google suggested that this is a common problem with hotmail and that possible causes can include I have been trying to get PEAR::mail to successfully deliver emails to hotmail users without being flagged as SPAM and ending up in the junk folder, i have no problems with yahoo/gmail only with hotmail.