I noticed recently that some mails from our server have been marked as spam. I’m using Zend_Mail whenever I can for sending mail in PHP. For example this little email.
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setSubject('Hello World')
->setBodyText('This mail is going to change your life.')
->addTo('vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Vaclav Krajnak')
->setFrom('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->setReturnPath('bounce [at] clipsan [dot] com')
->setReplyTo('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->send();
Mails from one server were ok, from other not. I found out that the ones that have been send via Postfix causing trouble. I found out that the Return path is ignored by Postfix and replaced with www-data [at] clipsan [dot] com where clipsan.com is in /etc/mailname. Markus has written a post PHP und Postfix: Return-path setzen how you can fix this using common mail() function of PHP.
mail("vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com", "Hello World", "This mail is going to change your life.", "From: info [at] clipsan [dot] com", "-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com");
Yeah but I hate to work with the mail() function directly:) So I went deep into Zend Framework and searched the class Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail. It passes the parameters given in constructor as the fifth parameter to the mail() function it calls. That’s what we need. I have to create the Transport object by myself and not leave it to Zend Framework to handle it.
$transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail("-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com");
Of course we don’t want to prevent any other Transport that is used when sending, so I set the Default Transport instead of passing $tranport directly to send() method. The final example is this:
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setDefaultTransport(new Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail("-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com"));
$mail->setSubject('Hello World')
->setBodyText('This mail is going to change your life.')
->addTo('vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Vaclav Krajnak')
->setFrom('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->setReturnPath('bounce [at] clipsan [dot] com')
->setReplyTo('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->send();
Please notice that the setDefaultTransport method does not support method chaining.
Hope this helps, happy mailing…I noticed recently that some mails from our server have been marked as spam. I’m using Zend_Mail whenever I can for sending mail in PHP. For example this little email.
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setSubject('Hello World')
->setBodyText('This mail is going to change your life.')
->addTo('vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Vaclav Krajnak')
->setFrom('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->setReturnPath('bounce [at] clipsan [dot] com')
->setReplyTo('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->send();
Mails from one server were ok, from other not. I found out that the ones that have been send via Postfix causing trouble. I found out that the Return path is ignored by Postfix and replaced with www-data [at] clipsan [dot] com where clipsan.com is in /etc/mailname. Markus has written a post PHP und Postfix: Return-path setzen how you can fix this using common mail() function of PHP.
mail("vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com", "Hello World", "This mail is going to change your life.", "From: info [at] clipsan [dot] com", "-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com");
Yeah but I hate to work with the mail() function directly:) So I went deep into Zend Framework and searched the class Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail. It passes the parameters given in constructor as the fifth parameter to the mail() function it calls. That’s what we need. I have to create the Transport object by myself and not leave it to Zend Framework to handle it.
$transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail("-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com");
Of course we don’t want to prevent any other Transport that is used when sending, so I set the Default Transport instead of passing $tranport directly to send() method. The final example is this:
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setDefaultTransport(new Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail("-fbounce [at] clipsan [dot] com"));
$mail->setSubject('Hello World')
->setBodyText('This mail is going to change your life.')
->addTo('vaclav.krajnak [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Vaclav Krajnak')
->setFrom('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->setReturnPath('bounce [at] clipsan [dot] com')
->setReplyTo('info [at] clipsan [dot] com', 'Clipsan')
->send();
Please notice that the setDefaultTransport method does not support method chaining.
Hope this helps, happy mailing…
