send mail

phpprog

Hi all,
I built an mass email module that sends around 1000 emails.
But not all of them are receiving the emails. I am puttinf the email addresses in bcc and using an php class libmail.class. MTA is sendmail. What could be the problem??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

wilsonodk

not every email app will recognizes the header info that php sends in its email,
you'd be better looping through the list and sending each email in the To: field.

HTH

phpprog

thanks very much for the reply

if i send it using to, all the 1000 email addresses will be visible to all the users, thats why i am using bcc.
Can you please explain what headers do??

thanks a lot

wilsonodk

if you loop through you, they won't be able to.
i'm no expert on header info, i'd look at Google: email headers for more info.
I read somewhere that header info will not always be read by every mail client the same way.

// here is an example of looping
$to = array ('email address','email address');

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($to); $i++) {
  mail($to[$i],$subject,$message,$headers);
}

You can also make a loop for the $to array.

HTH

phpprog

One more thing, when i check the log file, i found several of these
messages

sendmail[pid]:quid:
to: emailaddress
ctladdress: somevalue
delay: somevalue
xdelay: somevalue
mailer = remote
pri = somevalue
relay = somevalue
dsn = 4.0.0
stat = deferred

Can anybody plz explain what this means

tha_mink

Yeah deferred means just that. The mail couldn't get sent for one reason or another (prolly those 1000 bccs) and so it got deferred until later when, maybe, it can be successfully sent.

You are sending 1000 BCCs? Yikes. That is so foul. You should definitly loop it and send 1000 individual mails. PS...bcc can still be seen.

Are you pulling these email addresses from a database? cause then it would be so much easier to loop em.

tha_mink

phpprog

Thanks for the reply
But I am able to send most of the mails, but for a specific company's domain e.g, aa@company.com, suppose the domain name of the company is "company", then I am unable to send mails to those domain..