When i try to send a mail with PHPmailer via gmail smtp server the mail will be flagged as spam. i am using a hotmail account to receive the email.
i've looked to other topics about this problem but they mention that they set the "from" to their own domain name but for me myaccount@gmail.com is good enough.
this is the code i use:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = "test";
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "myaccount@gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "mypassword";
$mail->SetFrom('myaccount@gmail.com', 'myaccount');
$mail->Subject = "Test subject";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "myaccount@hotmail.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "test");
$mail->Send()
I've read this topic: How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam?
but like i said i don't need my own domain name. Or is this impossible and do i need to use my own domain and use SPF and DKIM?
Edit:
I've tested sending emails to yahoo and gmail and both work only hotmail will mark them as spam.
Solved:
I tried to send a mail with the gmail webclient and even then my mail gets flagged as spam. Somehow the gmail smtp servers are blacklisted. So i created an hotmail account and changed the code to use hotmail smpt server.
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Host = 'smtp.live.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
Now my mails are not marked as spam anymore on yahoo gmail and hotmail.
