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Multi Mailer - BCC

DaemonProjects

Hello all,

I am trying to create a HTML email script for news letters. I pull all my email address's from a database and put them into an array. I try to send them out with BCC in the mail() function but it seems only certain emails get out or non at all.

$address = array();

		// Grab emails from database
		$sql_address = "SELECT EMAIL FROM mailinglist WHERE ACTIVE='1'";
		$result_address = mysql_query($sql_address) or die ("<b><center style='color:red;'>".mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."</b></center>\n");

		while ($rowsaddress = $rows_address = mysql_fetch_array($result_address, MYSQL_ASSOC)){
			//$address[] = $rowsaddress["EMAIL"].",".$address;
			$address[] = "<".$rowsaddress["EMAIL"].">";
		}

		$list = implode(", ",$address);

		$headers = "From: News Letter <noreply@domain.com>\n";
		$headers .= "Return-Path: noreply@domain.com\n"; 
		$headers .= "Bcc: ".$list."\n";
		$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
		$headers .= "Content-type: text/HTML; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";
		$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
		$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";

		$body = "<html><head><title>News Letter</title></head><body>\n";
		$body .= $_POST["fck1"]."\n";
		$body .= "</body></html>\n";

		mail("noreply@domain.com", $_POST["subject"], wordwrap($body, 70), $headers);

any help would be great!

dagon

how long is $list? There is a limit to how many addresses you can put in bcc

DaemonProjects

dagon wrote:
how long is $list? There is a limit to how many addresses you can put in bcc

right now 5

dagon

5 shouldn't be a problem, but looping through them individually may be a better option

DaemonProjects

dagon wrote:
5 shouldn't be a problem, but looping through them individually may be a better option

I was going to do that, but I was trying another way so I didnt slam the server.

dagon

5 emails is not going to slam any server. and all BCC does is get the mail server to spilt it up rather than the php script so not a huge issue there.

DaemonProjects

dagon wrote:
5 emails is not going to slam any server. and all BCC does is get the mail server to spilt it up rather than the php script so not a huge issue there.

at the moment their are 5 emails but I'd like to support more, like thousands.

NogDog

As stated in the mail() manual page, mail() is not particularly well designed for mass mailings. I'd recommend you either look into the PEAR Mail and Mail_Queue packages for handling mass mailings, or perhaps a 3rd party mailing application such as poMMo.

DaemonProjects

ok thanks NogDog.

This is for a Monthly News Letter. I guess I could always make a cron job and have the script sleep every 10 secs per email