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[Peter Lehrer]

OK, Thanks. I installed sendmail on my local machine and got it to
work. However, when I send it to my gmail account, it goes into spam.
This is probably due to the reason Chris enumerated.

Peter

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Peter Lehrer <plehrer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to get the php mail function to work. I have a website
>> running Apache2 and PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze8 on Debian. I tried to
>> get a test email message working. Here is my code:
>>
>> <?php
>> $to = "plehrer at gmail.com";
>> $subject = "Test mail";
>> $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
>> $from = "plehrer at me.outlook.com";
>> $headers = "From:" . $from;
>> mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
>> echo "Mail Sent.";
>> ?>
>>
>> Can anybody help me?
>>
>
> Best way to debug mailing issues is to view the mail log and see if
> there are any clues as to what went wrong. On Debian, it is at
> /var/log/mail.log
>
> Very often mail problems have to do with anti-spam controls in
> receiving systems. Most big email companies will only accept mail from
> servers with a reverse-DNS record that maps the IP address to a real
> name. Also, you may be running up against SPF records created by
> outlook.com that prevent forging mail from that address.
>
> One thing I notice in your script is a missing space after the colon in "From:".
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