Brent,
It appears that SwiftMail operates like an SMTP but it also tracks delivery
stats, is that right? It is easy to reconfigure either PHP or the current
SMTP server to relay mail through another server like SwiftMail, but why
would SwiftMail yield any higher delivery rates?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Baisley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP mail() signup confirmation for JewFind.comdoes
not get delivered consistently
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Hans Zaunere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A client of mine (www.JewFind.com) is using the PHP mail() function to
send signup email-confirmations and it works most of the time, but
quite a few users have contacted them saying that they did not receive
the email. We discovered that Yahoo mail requires the "-f
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" header to deliver to the inbox instead of the
junkmail box- anyone know if there other headers that can be added to
make the delivery more reliable?
-- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] header
-- Make sure the web server's user is in /etc/mail/trusted-users if using
sendmail/etc.
-- And most importantly: relay mail through a real mail server with
proper
DNS records, etc. Many places now check for the correct DNS records and
listening SMTP ports to ensure it's a real server sending the mail. Web
servers won't pass these tests.
H
For this very reason I switched to SwiftMail long ago (written in
PHP). I can log into an account on a mail server (i.e. gmail) and send
emails through that account. It's free and very robust, but also has a
"simple" mode.
Brent Baisley
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