Php Mail() Mails Sent As Potential Spam.. Help!

[slothso]

I'm getting X-warnings from my isp when sending mails from a form with mail(). I also got the same warnings from the email sent by this very forum when I registered!

 

example:

 

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X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report

X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.totalchoicehosting.com

X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - dnai.com

X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [47 12]

X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - totalchoicehosting.com

X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/65, host=mr03.mrf.mail.rcn.net

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I am assuming it has something to do with the following line in the headers:

 

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Received: from nobody by server1.totalchoicehosting.com with local (Exim 4.24)

id 1BMCV6-0006Me-KT

for myemail_at_dnai.com; Fri, 07 May 2004 17:03:20 -0400

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Where the mail is being sent from an un-authenticated "nobody" without a resolved ip address.

 

Any idea how to fix this?

 

I also tried phpmailer, using SMTP, it fixed the "nobody" problem, but I still get warnings as in:

(note that @'s have been replaced for this example. Also, slothsound.com is my domain at TCH)

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Return-Path: <download_AT_slothsound.com>

Received: from mr02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (207.172.4.21 [207.172.4.21])

by ms08.mrf.mail.rcn.net (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA FastPath)

with ESMTP id DPV66145;

Fri, 07 May 2004 02:00:24 -0400 (EDT)

Received: from 207.172.4.50 (EHLO mx01.mrf.mail.rcn.net) (207.172.4.50)

by mr02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.4.4-GR FastPath queued)

with ESMTP id GYX80316;

Fri, 07 May 2004 02:00:23 -0400 (EDT)

Received: from server24.totalchoicehosting.com ([207.44.242.2])

by mx01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7)

id 1BLyPH-0000Vu-00

for kcs_AT_rcn.com; Fri, 07 May 2004 02:00:23 -0400

Received: from server24.totalchoicehosting.com ([207.44.242.2] helo=www.slothsound.com)

by server24.totalchoicehosting.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24)

id 1BLyP4-0006hM-Pu

for kcs_AT_rcn.com; Fri, 07 May 2004 01:00:10 -0500

Received: from phpmailer ([24.7.72.203])

by www.slothsound.com with HTTP (PHPMailer);

Fri, 7 May 2004 01:00:10 -0500

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 01:00:10 -0500

To: kcs_AT_rcn.com

From: Conformer Download <download_AT_slothsound.com>

Subject: Here is the subject

Message-ID: <332fef2717d32e73a83effc6298d9afc@www.slothsound.com>

X-Priority: 3

X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.71]

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Content-Type: text/plain

X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report

X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server24.totalchoicehosting.com

X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - rcn.com

X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]

X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - slothsound.com

X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/65, host=mr02.mrf.mail.rcn.net

 

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[Sarah]

Slothso-

 

I thought those AntiAbuse headers are attached no matter what, not when they are reported as spam.

 

As far as the nobody address, I was having problems with that too. Apparently, somehow the server is configured to sendmail from that address if you don't specify some parameters in your mail() function.

 

I use mail() to send email to my Lotus Notes mailbox. This is the mail() I use:

 

>$mailto = "whoever@****";
$subject = "mySubject";
$message = "my Message";

$name = "Sarah";
$mailfrom = "myemail@****";

$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$name."<".$mailfrom.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$name."<$mailfrom>\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";

if (@mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $headers)) 
{
    header("Location: http://www.****"); 
    exit;
}
else {
    print "<h2>Mail did not send...<br>";
    exit;
}

 

Try that.. hope this helps..

 

PS - you may/may not need the /n's at the end of the headers.. or you may need a /r , it depends on what program you are using.

 

Sarah

[Sarah]

Well I just looked through some of my old posts and found this thread:

 

PHP mail() not working!

 

Hopefully that will also help you..

 

 

Sarah

[Deverill]

The X-headers are added to every email leaving the TCH servers. It is to let someone know where to report spam if they get it.

 

Nobody is a default account - if your php is not set right it is probably where that's coming from.