email question

[Boxkites]

Hi there,
I want to send out an email to a list of subscribers. That is not the problem I have but the fact is that I do not want the subscribers to see who else has subscribed,
I want to keep their emails private of course, so not showing in the address bar.

Ok so I should use $BCC I quess but I don't know how.
How do I make a list that will send all the bcc people an email without having all those emails visible in the address bar?

If I use something like this, this not the full script but you get the picture from this lot I hope.:

$email     = "[e-mail]";
$bcclist   = "[e-mail]";
$bcclist . = "[e-mail]";
$bcclist . = "[e-mail]";
$bcclist . = "[e-mail]";
$site      = "my_website.com";

$to =  $email;
$bcc = $bcclist;
$subject = "Yada";
$message = "More Yada Yada Yada";

$send = mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: {$site}");
$send .= mail($bcc, $subject, $message, "From: {$site}");

If I send it this way, all the emails on the bcclist will be shown in the address bar.
The origional $bcclist will be in another file as well and I will bring it in but that is not of importance I assume.

The other question is can it be done without using $bcc, so can I have an email sent and have the $to go to a list and not have all the emails showing in all those peoples address bar?

Please Help!!

[dagon]

have a look at the manual's mail() page on how to properly use headers such as bcc.

you may find it easier to use a third party script such as phpmailer

[Boxkites]

I had a look at the manual you mentioned dagon, so if I use this for instance, will it work?

$email  = '[e-mail]'; 
$bcclist   = '[e-mail]'. ',';
$bcclist . = '[e-mail]'. ',';
$bcclist . = '[e-mail]'. ',';
$bcclist . = '[e-mail]'. ',';
$site      = 'my_website.com';

$to =  $email;
$bcc = $bcclist;
$subject = "Yada";
$message = "More Yada Yada Yada"; 

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'to: {$to}';
$headers .= 'From: {$site}';
$headers .= 'Bcc: {$bcclist}';

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

I know all about third party stuff but I just want to learn some stuff while I am at it. I do enjoy this stuff.

Thanks,
Robert

[dagon]

Boxkites;10910444 wrote:

I had a look at the manual you mentioned dagon, so if I use this for instance, will it work?

try it an see.

[Boxkites]

dagon;10910448 wrote:

try it an see.

Does that mean you don't know?
I was hoping to have it solved before wasting a lot of my time on it.
This is just a hobby of mine and not my profession.

Tanks
Robert

Ps, are you a kiwi too?

[dagon]

Boxkites;10910451 wrote:

Does that mean you don't know?
I was hoping to have it solved before wasting a lot of my time on it.
This is just a hobby of mine and not my profession.

Tanks
Robert

Ps, are you a kiwi too?

you said you wanted to learn, and we all know the best way to do that is to try it.

[Boxkites]

I was hoping to learn from somebody who knows, that is why I came back in here and posted the question.
I will wait till someone who does know answers this question, thanks anyway dagon

Take care
Robert

[dagon]

you said you didn't want to use a third party app but learn yourself, now you want to be told the answers, make up your mind.

[Boxkites]

So do you know the answer or not dagon, that is my question, if so what have I done wrong in the code I wrote?

You must know the answer otherwise you would not have replied to my question.

Cheers

[NogDog]

Did you try the code you posted in post #3? Did it work? If not, did PHP display any errors? If not, did you check your PHP error log?

You should not need to set a "To:" value in the additional headers, since you supply it as the first parameter to mail(). Also, it looks like you are using just a domain name for the "From:" header; it needs to be a email address, not a domain (and many mail servers will require that it be a valid email address on that server).

[Boxkites]

Thanks guys, I got an answer to the same question from a different php forum and they helped me straight away.
They helped me to get it going and I did learn something in the process so I am happy now.

Cheers