send batch email

[Anon]

How could I send the same email, such as a notice to a group of people. Is there any function of PHP to do so?

thanks

[Anon]

Yes it's called mail(). www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[waygood]

$to = $mail_to_list;
$subject = $mail_subject;
$body = $mail_body;
$header = "";
$header.= "Cc: " . $cc_email_to_list . "\n";
$header.= "Bcc: " . $bcc_email_to_list . "\n";
$header.= "From: " . $mail_from . "\n";
$header.= "Reply-To: " . $mail_reply_to . "\n";
$header.= "\n";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);

$mail_to_list - list of e-mail addresses with ";" seperator.
$cc_mail_to_list - list of e-mail addresses with "," seperator.
$bcc_mail_to_list - list of e-mail addresses with "," seperator.
extra "\n" needed at end of header as standard.

omit Cc , Bcc and Reply-To if not needed, using // at beginning of line.
$mail_to_list can be empty if using Cc or Bcc.

ALL email addresses can be seen by everyone recieving them except if they are in the Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy list).

Have Fun

[piersk]

Note that you cant use Bcc with the mail() function when using Windows.

[theslinky]

You can also use sendmail if you're on a *nix system.

Open a file pointer to the sendmail program, write the contents of the email, and then close the file pointer to send. Make sure you use the pipe (|) symbol to indicate it's a system command.

mail() would be the way to go, but if when sending mass amounts of emails, I go with qmail's sendmail binary. Note: i said qmail's sendmail, not the sendmail MTA distribution. qmail include a mimic of the sendmail program to send email using its software.

-sridhar

[spincowboy]

I guess im a little lost on how to point to SendMail with the Mail() function where do you add that?

[waygood]

see PHP.net here for an explanation.
On most hosting sites you just use the mail() function (if they allow you to mail out) unless you are hosting it on your own machine

[[deleted]]

<?php
$con = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errorNumber, $errorString);
fputs($con, "HELO $SERVER_NAME\r\n");
?>

and so on as described in rfc2821

you should use this , because mail() opens and closes the connection for every mail it sends and is not suitable for mass mailing

[intenz]

mail(); not suitable for mass mailing? Since when?
You can mass mail with mail();

mail('[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail]','Subject','Text','From: [e-mail]');

Mass mail...voila.