I am using phpmailer to send email.
When I add the list-unsubscribe the email gets delivered to all accounts, except gmail. It just gets dropped, it doesn't go into spam, it just never arrives at the gmail account. When I remove the list-unsubscribe, it successfully gets sent to the gmail account.
This is the list-unsubscribe that I am using:
List-Unsubscribe:<http://keepity.com>,<mailto:admin#keepity.com>
This is how its called in phpmailer:
$mail->AddCustomHeader("List-Unsubscribe:<http://keepity.com>,<mailto:admin#keepity.com>");
This is the full function that calls phpmailer. If I comment out the list-unsubscribe then the mail gets delivered to gmail account, otherwise it never arrives. Does anyone know why it would not be delivered?
static function phpmailer_sendmail($mail,$from,$fromAlias,$to,$replyTo,$replyToAlias,$subject,$html,$text) {
require_once (JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'PHPMailer-master/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // by setting TRUE you enable exceptions
$mail->IsSMTP(true); // SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // SMTP authentication
$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->Host= "xyz"; // Amazon SES
$mail->Port = 465; // SMTP Port
$mail->Username = "xyz"; // SMTP Username
$mail->Password = "xyz"; // SMTP Password
$mail->ClearAllRecipients();
$mail->ClearAddresses();
$mail->ClearCCs();
$mail->ClearBCCs();
$mail->ClearReplyTos();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
$mail->ClearCustomHeaders();
$mail->SetFrom($from, $fromAlias);
$mail->AddReplyTo($replyTo,$replyToAlias);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Body = $html;
$mail->AltBody = $text;
$address = $to;
$addressAlias = $to;
$mail->AddAddress($address, $addressAlias);
$mail->AddCustomHeader("List-Unsubscribe:<http://keepity.com>,<mailto:admin#keepity.com>");
$mail->Send();
}
the function addCustomHeader gets 2 arguments
and the unscribe value format should be
<email_to_unscribe#email.com>, <http://url_to_unscribe.com>
here is an example how it should be called :
$mail->addCustomHeader("List-Unsubscribe",'<admin#keepity.com>, <http://keepity.com/?email='.$address.'>');
I know this is old, but it's ranking well in Google for a search of "List-Unsubscribe" and the provided suggestion isn't quite correct.
PHPmailer addCustomHeader only takes one argument. The double quotes wrap the entire header like this.
$mail->AddCustomHeader("List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:info#example.com?subject=Unsubscribe>, <http://example.com/unsubscribe.php?mailid=1234>");
List-Unsubscribe takes 2 arguments, a mailto: and a URL that can be set up to automatically unsubscribe the email. Of course you can generate the mailid (or whatever you call the GET var) dynamically too.
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I'm using phpmailer on my ERP and the from email is a noreply# and the reply-to is my client/company email.
Everything is working, however, I noticed that when a person is replying by a mobile app the reply goes to the "from" email and not the reply-to, also, that happens to the autoresponse.
How can I solve the problem?
This is part of the code
$mail->setFrom($from, $name_from);
$mail->addAddress(getToEmail($iduser));
$mail->ClearReplyTos();
$mail->addReplyTo($reply, "Reply to " . $name_from);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Sender = $reply;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
one more thing, I was told that mobile clients not always download the entire email but show a button to do so. These clients cannot see "reply-to" if the mail is not fully downloaded.
I am not sure if this is fully true ...
A number of people had shown similar question, using phpmailer with g-mail. This problem is slightly different and may need a different answer.
The phpmailer code is fairly standard (below). I have a loop that goes through some data in the table and builds customised messages for recipients, sending a message for each row in the table. When the message is sent, it successfully completes about 75 out of some 100 recipients, and for the last 25, it reports the SMTP connect() failed error. This doesn't happen every time, and occasionally, the script goes through the loop without errors.
<?php
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPsecure = "ssl";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "xx"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "xx"; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom("xx#gmail.com");
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->CharSet = "utf-8";
$mail->Subject = $msgsubject;
$mail->AltBody = "Invitation";
do {
$membername = $row_musicians['name'];
$membernumber = $row_musicians['number'];
$emailaddress = $row_musicians['email'];
$rhdate = $row_musicians['rhdate'];
$mail->clearAttachments();
$mail->Body = 'Dear '.$membername.',
<p>'.$maintext.'</p>
';
// some more text using custom variables from database
// closing part of the message
$mail->Body .= '<p>'.nl2br($closing, false).'</p>
</body>
</html>';
$mail->AddAddress($emailaddress, $membername); // sending each message
sleep(1); // wait one second between sends, to avoid spam filters
echo '<br />
Recipient: '.$membername.' ('.$emailaddress.') -- ';
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: <div style='color:#009999'>" . $mail->ErrorInfo." </div>";
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
$mail->ClearAddresses();
} while ($row_musicians = mysql_fetch_assoc($musicians));
mysql_free_result($musicians);
?>
I recommend basing your code on the mailing list example provided with PHPMailer.
You're doing most things right - initialising PHPMailer first and setting properties that are common to all messages, but one key thing is missing:
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
Without this it means that it closes and reopens a connection for every message, and you're mostly likely running into connection rate limits.
you're also using the combination of Port= 587 and SMTPSecure = 'ssl' which will generally not work; switch to Port = 465.
I'd also recommend against the do/while loop - it will fail if your database query fails to find anything because it's bottom-tested and thus will always run once, even if there is no data. Use a while or foreach loop instead.
The mailing list example does all of these things already.
Final thing - if this is all your code, it looks like you're running an old version of PHPMailer, so get the latest.
Using PHPMAILER class to send email from my website to my gmail account, if I try to response this consult gmail puts this gmail account as destination address.
This issue happens only with gmail, yahoo for example works fine.
The code I'm using to send from the form:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSendmail();
$body = "body of consult";
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->From = "user#hotmail.com"; // sender
$mail->FromName = "User Name"; // sender
$mail->addReplyTo("user#hotmail.com","User Name"); // sender
$mail->AddAddress("myaccount#gmail.com", "my name"); //destination (Me)
$mail->Subject = "User Subject";
$mail->AltBody = ""; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->IsHTML(true);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
return(false);
} else {
return(true);
}
Is there any value o function to add to phpmailer class?
I appreciate any help.
Thank's
This is a gmail limitation. It does not let you send from arbitrary "from" addresses, only your account address. You can add additional aliases in your gmail preferences, but you can't use a non-gmail address.
This is covered in the PHPMailer documentation.
I have come across some weird behaviour in PHPMailer. I am using my gmail account for the SMTP settings. But every time PHP sends an e-mail(in this case, it's for resetting a password), I receive the same e-mail too. Except for when the password reset is requested for my gmail account.
Here is the code;
//set email settings
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = 'mymail#gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'mypassword'; // SMTP password
$mail->From = 'noreply#bla.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Bla';
$mail->AddAddress($email); // Name is optional
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Bla registration';
$mail->Body ="
<html>
<header><title>Welcome to Bla</title></header>
<body>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Welcome to Bla. Thank you for registering an account. Before you can start inventing music, please activate your account</p>
<p><a href='http://www.bla.com/register/activate.php?activation=$activationcode&email=$email'> http://www.Bla.com/register/activate.php?activation=$activationcode&email=$email</a></p>
See you soon on Bla!
</body>
</html>";
$mail->Send();
There is no error or something like that. The e-mail is actually send, and received. Only problem is that I receive as well because the e-mail address in Username is my e-mail address. Does anyone know why this happens?
Add ClearAddresses like this->
$mail->Send();
$mail->ClearAddresses();
And solved.
Greetens
Try to change
$mailer->isSMTP();
to
$mailer->Mailer = 'smtp';
I am on a shared hosting plan, and when I send emails with PHP, email clients (like Gmail) will add a little via bit to my from field, with my host's domain in there.
So instead of my emails being just from my domain:
From: me#mydomain.com
It's from two domains:
From: me#mydomain.com via host13.myhost.com
Clearly, this is confusing to people receiving email and is poor branding. Since I'm on a shared hosting plan, I don't think I'm likely to have access to the configurations settings of PHP or whatever it uses to mail. Is it possible for me to digitally sign my PHP emails, or is this not possible on shared hosting?
Here is what I'm doing now:
$header = "From: me#mydomain.com";
mail("you#yourdomain.com", "subject", "body", $header);
You can try this, you need to download the PHP Mailer class from Here and your code will be like this:
<?php
include "PHP MAILER CLASS";
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
try {
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "example#gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "password"; // GMAIL password
$mail->AddAddress("Reciever Email", "Reciever Name");
$mail->SetFrom('Sender Email', 'Sender Name');
$mail->Subject = "Subject";
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML("Message Body");
$mail->Send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
$e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
$e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
?>
The default mail function is at the mercy of your server setup and rarely looks like regular mail to the reciever. You should use a library either SwitfMailer or pear MAIL that can send the mail through your own mail server via SMTP. You can use your normal email account or setup a new one for your web service.