Hello, everyone.

Have you ever had this problem? osCommerce customers not receiving account info, forgotten passwords, order status change notification?

Well, we have experienced this trouble many times :(

Here's a fix: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4629

Hope, it is helpful.

Those sites have stiff anti-spam filters in place that frequently intercept emails sent from PHP and similar scripts. It's a tough nut to crack.

stymiee, you are a bit wrong.

The problem is in incorrect Return-Path parameter in mail header. That's the main reason those servers reject mail from OSC.

This solution is not a crack, but a fix :) See instructions and a little explanation inside the package.

That would mean I'm quite right. ;)

The headers in emails sent from PHP and other languages are usually what flags them at the free webhosts. You usually have to add several additional header fields to get the emails up to par.

You might check out OpenSPF (http://www.openspf.org) to see if it will help you out some. If you are using your web server to send email out, I would add that IP to the SPF record as well.

You might also see about getting whitelisted with AOL. We went through this process a couple of years ago - most of it was just common sense stuff.

stymiee, some days are better than others :)
Of cource, you're right, I didn't catch the whole meaning of your message ;)

Corey Bryant, SPF record really helps, but you still need to use valid email, and, as stymiee said, correct email headers.