phpmailer and spam

I'm using phpmailer class (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net) to send
mails from my site, but i can't figure out why those mails are seen as
spam by yahoo and hotmail. Gmail seems to look them better and allows
them to stay in "inbox" folder.
Are there any thing I can do about that?

sdos - jm

julian_m wrote:
> I'm using phpmailer class (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net) to send
> mails from my site, but i can't figure out why those mails are seen as
> spam by yahoo and hotmail. Gmail seems to look them better and allows
> them to stay in "inbox" folder.
> Are there any thing I can do about that?
>
> sdos - jm
>


mine works... how do you have your mail_inc.php configured?

class my_phpmailer extends phpmailer {
// Set default variables for all new objects
var $From = "myaddress@mydomain.com";
var $FromName = "My Name";
var $Host = "smtp.myISP.com";
var $Port = 25;
var $Mailer = "smtp"; // Alternative to IsSMTP()
var $SMTPAuth = true;
var $Username = "myispusername";

I require the password at email compose time to reduce the possibility
of my site being used to forge emails to others.. not entirely secure
but much better....

noone wrote:
> julian_m wrote:
> > I'm using phpmailer class (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net) to send
> > mails from my site, but i can't figure out why those mails are seen as
> > spam by yahoo and hotmail. Gmail seems to look them better and allows
> > them to stay in "inbox" folder.
> > Are there any thing I can do about that?
> >
> > sdos - jm
> >
>
>
> mine works... how do you have your mail_inc.php configured?
>
> class my_phpmailer extends phpmailer {
> // Set default variables for all new objects
> var $From = "myaddress@mydomain.com";
> var $FromName = "My Name";
> var $Host = "smtp.myISP.com";
> var $Port = 25;
> var $Mailer = "smtp"; // Alternative to IsSMTP()
> var $SMTPAuth = true;
> var $Username = "myispusername";
>


require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();


$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "my user"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "my pass"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "my email";
$mail->FromName = "my name";
$mail->AddAddress("whatever@mail", "name");
$mail->AddReplyTo("myemail");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
to 50 characters
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email
format to HTML

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail
clients";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";
?>

I'm not sure what do you mean with -"mail_inc.php". I don't have any
file like that...

regards - jm

julian_m wrote:
> noone wrote:
>
>>julian_m wrote:
>>
>>>I'm using phpmailer class (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net) to send
>>>mails from my site, but i can't figure out why those mails are seen as
>>>spam by yahoo and hotmail. Gmail seems to look them better and allows
>>>them to stay in "inbox" folder.
>>>Are there any thing I can do about that?
>>>
>>>sdos - jm
>>>
>>
>>
>>mine works... how do you have your mail_inc.php configured?

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>
> I'm not sure what do you mean with -"mail_inc.php". I don't have any
> file like that...

When I downloaded phpmailer this was how it was configured and if I
wanted to use authenticated then these variables were defined in this file.

>
> regards - jm
>

Okay...

Unless
A) you are using your ISP's SMTP {authenticated} server to send the mail

OR

B) {you have a registered domain name
AND
you have a static IP
AND
your Reverse-IP lookup translates to your domain
name/host (not your ISP's DSL/Cable IP address pool)
}

then the receiving server **assumes** you are a spammer and either
rejects the email out-right (as best I can tell, AOL does this) or
marks it as JUNK/SPAM etc...

I use ZONEEDIT as a dynamic DNS provider and I have this problem -that
is why my authenticated server points to my ISP's smtp server. But I am
not in the spam/newsletter/mass-mailing business so that is okay.