Avoiding Php Mail() To Spam Boxes
I'm sending soliticited emails for a nonprofit and i'm finding when i use PHP's mail function, and the mail goes through my ISP's SMTP, a decent percentage of the mails go to people's spam boxes.
are there known headers or something i could add to my code to make them less spam box prone?
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