I have made a social networking website The account activation emails that are being sent to the users are not lending in the inbox of the registered users. What is the way to make them land into the INBOX. I am simply sending them with PHP mail() function and using headers to specify the sender as Admin Mysitename<admin@mysitename.com> help please ...
Presuming that your mail implementation is working, try sending an email message to yourself. This is best to test on an account on a machine other than your web server. If that gets through, then you know your ISP is not blocking you and that your php.ini configurattion is correct. If you are on a Linux box the default normally works fine. If you are on a windows, box you need to enter the address of a proper mail server. If the test works, then you need to consider why you are being filtered out. Is your domain or a domain in the email message blacklisted? Is your IP address blacklisted? Assuming your users are not using fake emails, I would then consider the possibility they automatically put any mail which does not originate from a whitelisted sender into the spam box for later review. Most people review those boxes very quickly or not at all. That means that you should probably let people know that you will be sending a confirmation email and that if they do not receive it they may need to add you to their whitelist.
In normal condition it should work. check through phpinfo() if php in configured to use mail functions. Most of the facts have been answered lovein
okey I just relised that this is all about "configuring domain authentication infomration" when i send email to hotmail or AOL thye put it in spam folder. As their filder works on senderID authantication It works fine for yahoo and google. With hotmail the email donot arrive at that very instant it do arrive in some 12 hours or more in the spam folder itself .... like when you get a email from ebay it arrives in your inbox folder as they have authanticated their domain to use thsoe IP address to sedn the emails. now the problem is "HOW TO CONFIGURE DOAMIN AUTHANTICATION" ..?