Codeigniter Mail function sends mail to spam folder

Question

I am using codeigniter mail function. Its sends mail perfectly. But all the time mail going to the spam folder. How can I overcome this.

Function

function msg_now(){
        $this->load->library('email');
        $this->load->library('parser');

        $config['protocol'] = 'sendmail';
        $config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
        $config['mailtype'] = 'html';
        $this->email->initialize($config);
        $email_id='test@test.com';
        $name=$this->'test';
        $this->email->from('test@gmail.com');
        $this->email->to($email_id);

        $this->email->subject('Test subject');

        $this->email->message("<p>Lorem ipsum dummy content</p>");
        $this->email->send();
}

Try to avoid subject name with `test` try with other subject name. — Yash, Feb 16 '16 at 06:01
There are lots of reasons an email service will throw emails from a random server into the spam folder (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250234/sending-mail-with-php-escaping-hotmails-junk-folder) — Matt in Washington, Feb 16 '16 at 06:03
`test@gmail.com` is this real gmail id? if not try to replace with some real registered gmail id and check — Alive to die - Anant, Feb 16 '16 at 06:05
am using a valid email address for sending mail, this is my sample email id. — user5060801, Feb 16 '16 at 06:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 06:42

    $this->load->library('parser');

    $config = Array(
        'protocol' => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'smtp_user' => 'google email id',
        'smtp_pass' => 'password',
        'mailtype'  => 'html',
        'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
    );

    $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
    $this->email->from('google email id','Title'); // change it to yours
    $this->email->to(your send email id);// change it to yours
    $this->email->subject('you subject');
    $this->email->message('your message');
    if($this->email->send())
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
    }

$this->load->library('parser'); is the key to avoid spam. Please note it... — Agniswar Chakraborty, Oct 14 '21 at 04:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 06 '17 at 16:53

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There are many reasons for mail to go in spam, but easy solution for it is to set the headers of the mail before sending and giving it priority.

Here's how to do that in CodeIgniter. The function is set_header():

$this->email->set_header($header, $value);

also check this link for reference.

It has always worked for me.

edited Oct 06 '17 at 16:53

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answered Feb 16 '16 at 06:30

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Codeigniter doc's now located here. http://www.codeigniter.com/docs – Feb 16 '16 at 06:38
thanks, actually I was using previous version docs – Marmik Bhatt Feb 20 '16 at 03:55

Codeigniter Mail function sends mail to spam folder

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