Not sure if anyone else has experienced this but i have a simple form that sends out a email.
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="<?php echo $phone; ?>" />
<textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button" />
</form>
When submitted i have the following:
if ($_POST) {
$email_to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Contact Form";
$message = "Phone: {$phone}\r\nMessage: {$msg}";
$headers = "From: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
mail($email_to,$subject,$message, $headers);
}
When the form is submitted the mail function returns true but no email gets sent however when i change the FROM email to anything else outside of yahoo such as [email protected] the email comes through. Anyone know how to solve this issue?
Yahoo marked your mail as spam and is probably just ignoring it. This is probably true for hotmail as well.
Best thing todo is find yourself a good SMTP mail pluging/module (phpMailer for instance) and use the credentials of a legit mail account. This way you are sending mail trough a dedicated mail server and changes are you won't be marked as spam anymore.
Do notice however than when you sent loads of (simular) mails or your script gets hacked and is used for spamming, changes are that your legit mailserver becomes blacklisted or (if you are lucky) blocks your account as beeing unsafe.