mail problem

[powlow]

hey.

I have a mail problem. with the following code, i want to send mail to a mailing list. the emails to send the message to are in a file, each address seperated by a %. when the list is small, no problem. problem is the actual list is massive. is there a limit to the mailheader part? any way around the limit?

thanks and here's the code

-paulo

$recipient = $youremail;
$mailheaders = "From: $recipient \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $recipient\n";
$lines = explode("%",$content);
while(list($key)= each ($lines)){
$mailheaders.= "Bcc: ".$lines[$key]."\n";
}

Data was entered, display email for inspection...

if ($send=="test"){
print "This is what your email looks like:<br><br>";
print "<pre>$mailheaders\n<b>Subject</b> : $subject\n<table><tr><td width=450><b>Message</b> : $message</td></tr></table></pre>";
print "<form><input type=hidden name=mailheaders value=\"".$mailheaders."\"><input type=hidden name=subject value=\"".$subject."\"><input type=hidden name=message value=\"".$message."\"><div align=\"center\"></div><input type=submit value=send><input type=hidden name=pw value=".$pass."><input type=hidden name=send value=yes></div></form>";
}

Data was ok, send button is pressed

if ($send == "yes"){
print "<b>The following email has been sent!</b>";
print "<pre>$mailheaders\n<b>Subject</b> : $subject\n<table><tr><td width=450><b>Message</b> : $message</td></tr></table></pre>";
mail ($recipient,$subject,$message,$mailheaders);

[rosborne]

There is a limit on the mail header size for most mail servers, although I cant remember what that size limit is. Our office server is a Linux server running Sendmail and our limit is set to 300 addresses per field I seem to remember.

You could put a count on your while statement that increments by one with address, and when it reaches say 100 it sends the mail then carrys on where it left off with the other addresses.
To do this you will need to load the list into an array and use PHPs built in array pointer function, to remember where it reached.

If you don't know the code to do this post again here and I'll try and dig it out for you as I cant remember myself at the moment.

Richard

[powlow]

that's one way of doing it. i got sick of it and just put it in a loop sending an email each time. a bit slow, seeing as there's hundreds and hundreds of emails.

maybe you could dig out the code for me to have a look?

thanks

[rosborne]

Okey Dokey....

Your probably looking at something like this.

$count=1;
$mail_from="[e-mail]";
$subject="Its an email";
$message"Hello,
This is a message";

$array = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM name_table");
while($n=mysql_fetch_array($array))
{
$mailheaders.= "Bcc: ".$n[email]."\n";
$count +=1;
if ($count=100)
{
mail ($recipient,$subject,$message,$mailheaders);
$count = 1;
}
}

Jobs a gooden...
Havent time to see the other way of doing it at moment, but that will do it.