# PHP mail() being regarded as spam?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mail-being-regarded-as-spam/209617
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 10, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mail-being-regarded-as-spam/209617 "2006-12-10T23:03:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![level4designs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/level4designs/32/2659_2.png) [@level4designs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/level4designs)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mail-being-regarded-as-spam/209617/1 "2006-12-10T23:03:35Z")

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```auto

 
X-Apparently-To:josh_levelfour@yahoo.com via 68.142.236.169; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:47:28 -0800X-YahooFilteredBulk:64.128.189.154
 
X-Originating-IP:[64.128.189.154]
 
Return-Path:anonymous@unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com
 
Authentication-Results:mta181.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
 
Received:from 64.128.189.154 (EHLO unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com) (64.128.189.154) by mta181.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:47:28 -0800
 
Received:(qmail 10276 invoked by uid 48); 10 Dec 2006 18:44:21 -0500Date:10 Dec 2006 18:44:21 -0500Message-ID:20061210234421.10274.qmail@unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com
 
To:josh_levelfour@yahoo.comSubject:HTML Email
 
From:contact@unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com [IMG]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/pim/el/abook_add_1.gif[/IMG]Add to Address Book [IMG]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/nt/ic/ut/bsc/txtmess12_1.gif[/IMG]Add Mobile Alert 
 
Reply-to:contact@unix-39.bluetowerhosting.com
 
X-Mailer:PHP4
 
X-Priority:3MIME-Version:1.0
 
Content-Type:multipart/alternative; boundary="==MIME_BOUNDRY_alt_main_message"
 
Content-Length:823

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I am sending email from a webhost and these are the headers I receive in yahoo mail. Can someone direct me as to why this would be regarded as spam by their system… I don’t know enough about php and the mail() or email systems to fix?

thanks in advance, sorry it’s s messy…

Josh