multiple email recepients

[Anon]

I am trying to email multiple recepients using a mysql database. How does this work? Should the $email in the mail function be part of a do /while loop that queries the database?

i.e.

mail("$email","$subject","$body","$from");

I created a simple loop that does exactly that, however I keep getting an internal server error. Any ideas?

Regards,

Gordon

[Anon]

Greetings!
I had this kind of problems too, because "Internal Server Error" is related to closed mailing relay, meaning the mailing to outside [or inside your company] is not allowed.. I'd recommend you talk to a sysadmin there.

Best regards. zer0Kode.

[Anon]

Thanks for responding zer0Kode. Does this only happen in the case of multiple recipients, because the server thinks it might be spam? I can do a single mail call (i.e. one email address) without a problem - I thought perhaps the error was in them all (only about 20 emails in the database) being originated at more or less the same time. On another note, how can I get around this? Is it possible to use the html 'mailto:' command to send these emails? how would they get called from the database?

Thanks for yout help.

Gordon

[Anon]

Well, this usually happends, when you aren't authorised on the server, meaning, yu can't just send emails withut authorisations... How you do that, I don't knw... Our IT set the main server to open relay, meaning, that the messagess can be ONLY sent from THAT server (no abuse).
But I guess, that in your case that isn't and the multiple recipments are disallowed at the "almst" same time. Talk to Your IT. There is also possible to delay the postings for a second or so, but at the end the script may crash because of the exceeded execution time.

Tell your IT, that you want to COMPLETLY open just yur machine, or the server, that script runs on... Otherway, I can write some dalay scripts... This MAY help, but it's 99.9%, that it will crash because of the exceeded execution time...

Berst regards. zer0Kode

[kikidonc]

Hi guys,

I just read your mails and wondered if it was possible to do smthg like:

mail ($email, $subject, $body, $from);

with $email = "[e-mail]/; [e-mail]/; [e-mail]"

so that several mails could be send in the same time???

Kind Regards,
Fred.

[Anon]

Hi Fred -

That would probably work - the only thing is I am trying to have that mail command query the database for those emails, and that's where I am stuck.

I had it part of a do / while loop, which techinically would be sending out one email per email address, rather than one email to everyone. But that loop is not working on my server, whereas a single address does work.....

Gordon