For some reason I can receive email with the following code at yahoo.com, but not hotmail.com?? Can somebody please explain?
$usr = "bob@hotmail.com";
$subject = "Test Email";
$from = "noreply@test.com";
ini_set("sendmail_from", $usr);
$message = "<html><body style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; color: #444;\">
<h1 style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #111;\">This is an email</h1>
<span style=\"background: #CCC; display: block; padding: 20px;\"><br><br>
<b>This is a test.</b></body></html>";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "From: Test.com<$from>" . PHP_EOL;
mail($usr, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "<b>to:</b>$usr<br>";
echo "<b>subject:</b>$subject<br>";
echo "<b>msg:</b>$message<br>";
echo "<b>headrs:</b>$headers<br>";
I tried it many times, and nothing. But it worked straight away with yahoo.com.
Note: There is no junk, spam, or anything being received. I do not get the email on my iPhone either which is linked up to that account. 🙁
It is probably the spam-filters acting up, due to some header that hasn’t been passed to its satisfaction.
Instead of writing your own implementation of a mailer script, you could use one of the tested existing ones like PHPMailer.