Email Notifications

[rocka]

My website asks users to register and provide an email address. However they dont have to verify their account via email. I find that when I contact members emails are always going to spam folders. If I changed the site so that users had to open an email to verify their account once they register, would this mean mail would go to their inbox rather than spam folder next time I contact them?

Are there other ways to prevent emails going to spam folders?

[addisoncave]

it may be because of you use PHPmail function instead of SMTP, use a SMTP connection with SMTP authentication it won't let your mail go to spam folder of users email.
I use PHPMailer you can downlaod it from
https(colon)(slash)(slash)github.com(slash)PHPMail er(slash)PHPMailer and use the following codes



$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

$mail->Host = "mail.example.com"; // SMTP server example
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "username"; // SMTP account username example
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP account password example


enjoy

[Williams Reus]

Filter your spam
If you are one of the many email users who doesn’t enjoy having a full inbox, especially one chock full of spam, you can create various filters to put particular emails into different inboxes. In our survey, 39% of people say they set up filters in their email to automatically delete and stop spam.

This technique is not only helpful for keeping spam out, but also keeping track of important emails (like bills). Most times, the ability to create filters is located in your email client’s “settings” menu, and the filters can be created based on specific words, addresses, subject lines, groups of people, and many other criteria. This is a nice stop gap solution to stop spam from getting to your inbox.