Guys i need yr help here,i cant seem to send mails to gmail accounts from my website,i designed the mail form with PHP and am using the email function,i can send to yahoo accounts but Gmail accounts no show.

Please coders,i need yr help wat could the problem be.

Post the full mail() code you are using.
Is it that these mails don't get into gmail at all or they do but are in spam folder instead of inbox?

@dual core

they dont enter at all, am using mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); and it gets to yahoo accounts but gmail none, even spam folders,it does nt enter .

hala me abeg o!

What do you have set in your headers? It could be that your IP address is blacklisted by Google or SPF records are not present or set properly in your domain's DNS.

Post your header variable.
I could also give your temporary access to server where you can upload just the mail part to check if it works on a different server.

@dualcore


$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'From: <info@himeglobal.com.>' . "\r\n";


am sending a html email with it,hence the html;charset.

Check this:

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\nX-Priority: 1\r\nX-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $from\r\n" . "Reply-To: $from\r\n" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\r\nX-originating-IP: " . remoteaddr () . "\r\n";
$success = @mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

One thing I experienced was this anyways;

If you try and it fails, try stripping \r and just use \n

example:

if (preg_match('/gmail/',$email_address))
$headers = str_replace("\r\n","\n",$headers);

REASON: To avoid Gmail thinking headers were all sent after first row.

Please test ooooo. I just pulled from my archive and pasted here.

Try that and get back to us.

Omni, long time.

ok bro,i'l try and get back to u.

A few weeks ago, I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't send emails to gmail, yahoo and hotmail. As it turns out, the web host I was coding on, godaddy, had limitations for this. I was so pissed, especially after various phone calls started off with words like, "sorry, we understand your frustration but we can't help with custom scripts (as if I was calling for them to debug my script, a script that has been working on other hosts for at least 6 years!)" that I took to twitter starting a trend (#dumpgodaddy). In no time, they were responding but it was too late as I ended up switching to my "old faithful" webhost, hostmonster.

So, what web host are you using and, do you know if they support sending emails to addresses that include gmail, yahoo or msn?

Dual Core:

Try that and get back to us.

Omni, long time.

You know how far na so we no suppose dey chachacha in here

If u are using Goddady, you have made a big mistake!

Goddady is not goog for custom mail scripts except the one they gave you which does not work properly.

utimatedes, you can say that again. Of course, I learned the hard way. Who is it that said, "never again"? That is my official motto now. At least I blast them well well for twitter

On another note, the script they have actually works well for a standard form but not for what I wanted to do (for example, if a user changes their password, I need to generate an email and send to their registered email address (which could be yahoo, gmail, etc) an email with the new password). If it were a standard email form (name, number, comments, email), I probably wouldn't have complained.