OK, I got a script the takes a users msn/gmail contacts and invites them to join a site. But I would like to send these via SMTP so that they don't end up in people's junk mail folder. Can anyone help me out with this??


Here is the code for sending the messages.

<?PHP
session_start ();
$sendaddress = $_SESSION["memberemail"];
// Change subject to whatever you want subject to be
$subject = "$sendaddress Invites you to join";
 
// Change this message to whatever you want the body of the email to be
$message = "$sendaddress wants your to checkout the free online arcade and humor videos site www.arcadeoutlaw.com.\n\nIf your bored this is an awesome way to kill some time, and some of the videos will keep you laughing for days. \n\n\nGo check it out, it's free!\n\n\n\nwww.arcadeoutlaw.com";
$extra_header = "From: $sendaddress\r\nReply-To: $sendaddress";
foreach ($_POST['emails'] as $email){
 
        mail($email, $subject, $message, $extra_header);
 
}
 
echo "Emails sent to contacts from<br/><br/>" ;
echo $sendaddress; 
echo "<br/><br/></br>";
?>

Will pay if anyone can help me

If you have MSN/yahoo add me dansgalaxy@hotmail.co.uk

I'm just checking out how this is best done.

i think however (untested) you can just add a bunch of headers into mail() which help preventing it being dumped into the junk folders.

Add me and we can discuss what you need more

Dan

phpmailer has been the defacto standard for meeting flexible email requirements in php apps for a long time. It'd be in the top 10 list of classes to get to know well.

I tried to get phpmailer to work, but couldn't seem to get it to send with the script I have setup.

OK, if you have access to your server, you should definitely try the PEAR mailer class: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail
It's very robust, flexible and works great with smtp.
Bear in mind though, that you'll have to use a different syntax to the one you describe above.

i saw something about the pear one i really must learn more about it, at the moment im only familiar with mail() i have a script at the moment and i have a ton of headers in it which are suposidle help stop it being junked.

but when i first sent a email with this thing it went into my inbox (im using windows mail replacment for outlook express with vista) but all emails after that are going to junk no clue why.