Emails Blocked By Certain Mail Hosts? (mail() Function)
I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
mailing list for this site.
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