PHP contact form

daryllsheridan

Hi all

Having a bit of bother with my sites contact form, it works fine but if i send it to my hotmail or gmail account they get really suspicious of it and send it to Junk, sometimes even giving me warnings that they suspect its Phishing

Is there anything i can do to make the form more legit so my Hotmail account wont treat it like crap

Here is the php im using

<?
$email = $_REQUEST ;
$message = $_REQUEST ;
$name = $_REQUEST ;
$reason =$_REQUEST ;

if (!isset($_REQUEST)) {
header( "Location: contact.html" );
}
elseif (empty($email) || empty($message)) {
?>


<h1>Error</h1>
<p>
Oops, it appears you forgot to enter either your
email address or your message. Please press the BACK
button in your browser and try again.
</p>


<?
}
else {
mail( "email i want results sent to", "Feedback Form","$reason\n\n$message", "From: $name" );
header( "Location: thankyou.html" );
}
?>

Thanks Daryll

cython

It might help to have an actual email as the from, as you currently only seem to include a name in the message.

Basically, I'd suggest using as many of the headers as you can (within reason) for the mail function, so that your mail provider sees it as being as genuine as possible.

Also, perhaps allowing for the user to set the subject, as opposed to "Feedback Form". Perhaps thats a trigger in the filter.

I'm just going off what I did differently for a form myself, and Gmail never marks the stuff as spam

Ziycon

Below is how it should be and you should have the highlighted header redirect as the first line of the page, nothing before it!

<?
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$reason =$_REQUEST['reason'] ;

if (!isset($_REQUEST['email'])) {
header( "Location: contact.html" );
}
elseif (empty($email) || empty($message)) {
?>


<h1>Error</h1>
<p>
Oops, it appears you forgot to enter either your
email address or your message. Please press the BACK
button in your browser and try again.
</p>


<?
}
else {
mail( "email i want results sent to", "Feedback Form","$reason\n\n$message", "From: $email" );
[B][COLOR="Red"]header( "Location: thankyou.html" );[/COLOR][/B]
}
?>

leeroybrown

Have a look at the headers in the e-mail's that arrive to you. If they have passed through a Spam filter them may have the 'X-Spam-Report: ' header which might give you some useful information.

The one obvious problem that comes to mind is that the 'Return-path: ' for the e-mail may be set as the user the web server runs as and as such won't match the 'From: ' field. This will flag it as having a forged sender.

daryllsheridan

Cheers people I got it sorted

It was because i was including the persons name in the email address section

Spam filter obviously thought that meant i was pretending to be some1 i wasnt

Moved the name down into the message part and it worked fine