Mailing question

[Anon]

Is there a way to email a lot of people with one email, without saying who all the other people are who are getting the email? I want to get the result of sending this:

mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "test message");

... to about a hundred people, but I want the header to tell it to show only one name, "Recipients", so that the person at [e-mail] won't know everyone else who's getting it. I want the effect of sending the mail multiple times, but I only want to send it once to be less expensive.

--Jason

[emcb_php]

Hi,

The only way i know that this can be done is by asking your isp for a masqerading mailbox, this way you could could have a mailing list that would forward all mail sent to say [e-mail] to your recipients with out displaying all of the individual addresses.

Or you could send an individual e-mail to everyone in a function like this...

<?php

function sendmail() {
mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "test message");
mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "test message");
mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "test message");
mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "test message");
}

?>

As long as your web-site/sendmail is running on a nice fast server it would only take 15 seconds to send out 200 e-mails

Hope this helps,

Elfyn

[Anon]

That's the possibility I might have to resort to. However, I'd rather not have it send out 200 emails separately, since this could happen every few minutes (they're dynamically created subscription emails)...

--Jason

[gid__]

mail('', $SUBJECT, $BODY, "From: $FROM\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() ."\nBcc: $emaillist");

Where $emaillist is a comma delimited list of email addresses. Some email servers have built in limitations of how many people you can send a single message to. Our server was set at 500, so I limited my string to something like 499 (just to be safe) and looped through. Only grabbing 499 from the customer database at a time.

[gid__]

BTW, our orignal code was to send each customer his/her own email, but that killed our server hardcore. I think our filesystem in linux ran out of inodes or something 🙂

[emcb_php]

Hi,

Im just about to search our KB so ill let you know in about 30mins. Its likely im wrong and their peobably is a way 🙂

Ill get back very soon...

Elfyn

[Anon]

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.

--Jason

[Anon]

you might try this:

$sql = "SELECT email_addy FROM customers";
$exe = mysql_query($sql);
if(!$exe) {
echo "'$sql', could not be executed"; \
exit;
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($exe)) {
mail($row[email_addy], "test email", "test message", Headers(what ever you choose));
}

---

seems sort of silly but it does work... I wrote a small NewsLetter prog with code something like that.