PHP Mail gets blocked by spam filters

Hello,
I need to be able to send email in PHP without it getting filtered by
spam filters. Gmail usually filters all email sent using the "mail()"
function. I've looked on the forums, and am using the function below.
However, it seems to display alot of the meta data inside the email
itself. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have any
suggestions/example that will send a well-formed email (with all the
meta data in tact)?

Thanks in advance,
Jason Ho
Founder Clockspot.net
http://www.clockspot.net


function send_mail($to, $body, $subject, $fromaddress, $fromname,
$attachments=false)
{
$eol="\r\n";
$mime_boundary=md5(time());

# Common Headers
$headers .= "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".
$eol; // these two to set reply address
$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol; // These
two to help avoid spam-filters

# Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".
$mime_boundary."\"".$eol.$eol;

# Open the first part of the mail
$msg = "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;

$htmlalt_mime_boundary = $mime_boundary."_htmlalt"; //we must define
a different MIME boundary for this section
# Setup for text OR html -
$msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".
$htmlalt_mime_boundary."\"".$eol.$eol;

# Text Version
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
$msg .= strip_tags(str_replace("
", "\n", substr($body,
(strpos($body, "")+6)))).$eol.$eol;

# HTML Version
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
$msg .= $body.$eol.$eol;

//close the html/plain text alternate portion
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol;

if ($attachments !== false)
{
for($i=0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
{
if (is_file($attachments[$i]["file"]))
{
# File for Attachment
$file_name = substr($attachments[$i]["file"],
(strrpos($attachments[$i]["file"], "/")+1));

$handle=fopen($attachments[$i]["file"], 'rb');
$f_contents=fread($handle, filesize($attachments[$i]
["file"]));
$f_contents=chunk_split(base64_encode($f_contents)); //
Encode The Data For Transition using base64_encode();
$f_type=filetype($attachments[$i]["file"]);
fclose($handle);

# Attachment
$msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Type: ".$attachments[$i]["content_type"].";
name=\"".$file_name."\"".$eol; // sometimes i have to send MS Word,
use 'msword' instead of 'pdf'
$msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Description: ".$file_name.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".
$file_name."\"".$eol.$eol; // !! This line needs TWO end of lines !!
IMPORTANT !!
$msg .= $f_contents.$eol.$eol;
}
}
}

# Finished
$msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol; // finish with two
eol's for better security. see Injection.

# SEND THE EMAIL
ini_set(sendmail_from,$fromaddress); // the INI lines are to force
the From Address to be used !
$mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

ini_restore(sendmail_from);

return $mail_sent;
}

Re: PHP Mail gets blocked by spam filters

jason.m.ho@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to be able to send email in PHP without it getting filtered by
> spam filters. Gmail usually filters all email sent using the "mail()"
> function. I've looked on the forums, and am using the function below.
> However, it seems to display alot of the meta data inside the email
> itself. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have any
> suggestions/example that will send a well-formed email (with all the
> meta data in tact)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason Ho
> Founder Clockspot.net
> http://www.clockspot.net
>



Gmail (or any MTA) doesn't know if the mail comes from the mail()
function or something else. All it knows is what's in the mail.

Take a look at the source for an email which gets through Gmail and
compare them to the source of one which gets filtered. What's the
difference?

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