Sending email with phpmailer

[jamarchi]

Hi all

I´m new here and I would like to ask your help in this problem that I have. I need to send an email to all the member in a Video Store, the email email is about to let they know about the new movies that are able to rent.

I create this scrip using phpmailer but I not sure if work fine, this script request the email address (from), the subject and the email address of the members, in the list of the email I wrote my email in order to received the email but I never received it

Here is the script

if($_POST['Submit']){
// Get the Variables From the Form
include_once('class.phpmailer.php');

$email = $_POST['email'];
$bcc = $_POST['bcc'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];

$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "New movies";
$mail->ConfirmReadingTo= ('[e-mail]');

$mail->Timeout=120;

$mail->Subject = $subject;
$body = $mail->getFile('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->AltBody = "Please check this email with IE o Mozilla"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('images/boletin08062009.jpg', 'Visit us', '/images/boletin08062009.jpg');
$mail->MsgHTML($body);


$mail->AddAddress($email);
$mail->AddBCC($bcc);

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Your email were sent !!";
}
}

[cahva]

Does the test_mail_basic.php example work for you in the phpmailer package?

[jamarchi]

Hi cahva 😃

I check the file the you said (test_mail_basic.php) and it worked fine, I could send and received the email, why ? 😕

I was looking for in internet and I found this ..... but I didn´t understand the Note, can you please complain it to me

AddBCC [line 314]

void AddBCC( string $address, [string $name = ""] )

Adds a "Bcc" address. Note: this function works with the SMTP mailer on win32, not with the "mail" mailer.
Parameters:
string $address:
string $name:

[cahva]

Well it means that the addBcc wont work with the default mail mailer in windows🙂

If you are running on windows server, use the smtp method if you want to use BCC.

From the readme, use it like this:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();                                      // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com";  // specify main and backup server

[jamarchi]

Hi cahva

Thank you very much for your answer ..... 😃

I have another question/comment I have looked for in internet the BCC use... but I´m not sure about

If I want to use the BCC, Can I use like this syntaxis
$mail->AddBCC([e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]);

Or I only can use this
$mail->AddBCC([e-mail]);
$mail->AddBCC([e-mail]);
$mail->AddBCC([e-mail],);

Thank you