Sent email appears in recipient's spam folder in cakePHP using gmail account?

Question

I am Using cakephp for one of my project. for sending email I am using cakeEmail. For that I created one gmail account for sending emails(ie used in code for send mail from that account).Mail sending works but sent mail appears recipient's spam folder.
Also in gmail account that mail dosen't appear sent mail folder.

code is as bellow :

In /app/Config/email.php file is :

class EmailConfig {

    public $gmail = array(
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'port' => 465,
        'username' => 'username@gmail.com',
        'password' => 'password',
        'transport' => 'Smtp'
    );  

}

and code in my controller file for password recovery is :

public function _sendemail($user_data,$temporary_password){

            $email = new CakeEmail();
            $email->config('gmail');
            $email->template('welcome', 'password_recovery_email'); //template
            $email->emailFormat('html');
            $email->viewVars(array(
                               'temporary_password'=>$temporary_password,
                               'user_data'=>$user_data
                            ));
            $email->from(array('username@gmail.com' => 'Password Recovery'));
            $email->to($user_data['User']['email_address']);

            $email->subject('password recovery email');

            $result=$email->send();



    }

Please tell me what should I do to get all sent emails to appears in inbox rather than spam folder.

Thanks

Answer 1

A lot of reasons can make your email be considered a SPAM.

• Maybe Gmail can't check the sender (smtp source/your developing machine) as a trusted sender. Have you tried uploading your php script to another server (production) then sending it from there?

• Have you tried changing the message content/subject to something different from "Recover your password"?

• Have you tried sending the same message to another recipient?

Gmail uses a lot of rules to check whether an email is a spam or not, check out this link: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5773/how-gmail-and-other-mail-services-detects-a-mail-as-a-spam

Answer 2

Try using this code rather than cakephp's methods:

     $subject = "Your Email Subject";
     $to = "Recipient's Email Address";
     $from = "Your Email Address";
     $additional_headers = "From: $from\r\n";
     $additional_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
     $additional_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
     $additional_headers .= "Return-Path: $from\r\n";
     $additional_headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
     $additional_headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n";
     $message = "Your Email Body";
     mail($to, $subject, $message, $additional_headers, "-f $from")