$SendTo $Headers and add $Bcc

yesmaybe

Hello,

At the end of this post you can find an extract of the code which works as an inquiry form. SPAM check and other have been omitted

I want the result sent to one email and to one Bcc email as well.

I added this line

[code=php]$headers .= "Bcc: private@hotmail.com\r\n";	[/code]

But it didn't work, it's like the headers line was ignored.

So I tried this line

[code=php]$headers .= "\r\nBcc: private@hotmail.com\r\n\r\n";[/code]

And that printed that line in the email itself, not the ideal result! It still sends to email, but not to bcc.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, so can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

<?php
if(isset($_POST['Submitted'])) {

  $Errors = Array();

$SendTo = "xx@xxx";
$Subject = "Online Enquiry";
$FromString = "From:  ". $_POST['name'] ."  \r\n";

$Indhold = "Please reply to this online enquiry form as soon as possible:\n";
$Indhold .= "\r";
$Indhold .= "Subject: ".$_POST['subject']."\n";
$Indhold .= "\r";
$Indhold .= "Name: ".$_POST['name']."\n";
$Indhold .= "\r";
$Indhold .= "e-mail: ".$_POST['email']."\n";
$Indhold .= "\r";

$Indhold .= "Comment:\r\n".preg_replace("(\r\n|\r|\n)","\r\n",$_POST['comment'])."\n";

$MailSuccess = mail($SendTo,$Subject,$headers,$Indhold,$FromString);
header("Location: thanks.php");
exit;
  }
}
?>

                     <form id="contactform" method="post" action="enquiry.php">
                       <input type="hidden" name="Submitted" value="1" />

halojoy

Your code should work.
It is correct.

$headers .= "Bcc: private@hotmail.com\r\n";

Are you sure nothing is sent to your BCC address?
Is any mail sent to the normal sendto address?

Here is an example from official [man]mail[/man] php manual.

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

EDIT:
Ohh. I see.
mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers)

.... so, try

$MailSuccess = mail($SendTo, $Subject,  $Indhold, $headers);

bradgrafelman

Few problems with your code:

First thing I noticed is that you have "\n" followed by "\r" in $Indhold. If you're trying to use Windows line endings, then the correct sequence is "\r\n". It would save some space in your code if you just included the line endings at the end of the line of text, e.g.:
```
$Indhold = "Please reply to this online enquiry form as soon as possible:\r\n"; 
```
You use a concatenation operator, ".=", in your explanation above yet the variable $headers was never created in the first place (at least from the code you showed us above). Did you accidentally remove the line where $headers was initially defined, perhaps?
Your 'From:' e-mail header doesn't follow the correct format. The correct format for an e-mail is something like "John Doe <email@example.com>" or just "email@example.com".
Speaking of the "From:" header, you should never use the user-supplied e-mail address from the form as the "From" e-mail. You should instead always use a valid e-mail address on your domain; otherwise, you'll very likely get blacklisted as an "open relay" and your e-mails will start bouncing back to you.

If you really want to incorporate the user's e-mail address into the message, use the "Reply-To" header instead.
The "From:" e-mail header is just that; another e-mail header. As such, it should be placed in the same string with all of your other e-mail headers (in this case, just the "Bcc" one).
You've got the wrong parameters for the [man]mail/man function. Take a look at the manual page for this function to see the names and descriptions of the parameters; you should only be using the first four in this case.
You say that SPAM and "other" checks have been omitted, but I just wanted to point this out: if you use user-supplied data in your e-mail headers, make sure you're checking it for any line breaks or invalid format; otherwise, a malicious user could inject their own e-mail headers into the message.

yesmaybe

Hi Halojoy,

Thanks for taking the time to look through the code, I changed the MailSuccess line and the headers as follows and it works. I didn't realise the MailSuccess had to be in a specific order.

    $headers .= "From:  ". $_POST['email'] ."  \r\n";	
    $headers .= "Bcc: ******@hotmail.com\r\n"; 

$MailSuccess = mail($SendTo, $Subject,  $Indhold, $headers);

Hi Bradgrafelman,

Thanks for your comments too. I will go through those adjustments and see how I get on. This existing php without bcc has been used on a couple of servers for some years without negative problems. I'm inclined to think if it ain't broke ...

First point, headers wasn't omitted, the original code never used $headers, just the code I listed. As I say I will have a look at doing it the 'correct' way.

Thanks both of you.
I won't mark it as correct just in case I have a follow to bradgrafelman.

yesmaybe

Hi again Bradgrafelman,

Ok, I think I have followed your instructions and ended up with this code, which is also delivered correctly.

Apart from more Indhold answers, that is the lot. Is everything above board now?

I don't exactly understand the From line, if this enquiry form is on our server on our website, it is pretty obvious who it is 'from'. Does that have to be a true address?

<?php
if(isset($_POST['Submitted'])) {

  $Errors = Array();
  if(!trim($_POST['name'])) $Errors[] = "What is your name?";
  if(!trim($_POST['comment'])) $Errors[] = "Please add some more comments";
  if(!preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}/",$_POST['email'])) $Errors[] = "please check your email address";
  if(strtolower(trim($_POST['antispam'])) != "xxx") $Errors[] = "Spam check isn't answered correct";
  if(!count($Errors)) {
    $To .= 'To: Reception <reception@xx.com>' ;	
    $Subject .= "Online Enquiry" . "\r\n";

$Indhold .= "Please reply to this online enquiry form as soon as possible:\r\n"; 
$Indhold .= "Subject: ".$_POST['subject']."\r\n"; 
$Indhold .= "Name: ".$_POST['name']."\r\n"; 
$Indhold .= "Postal Address: ".$_POST['address']."\r\n"; 
$Indhold .= "Comment:\r\n".preg_replace("(\r\n|\r|\n)","\r\n",$_POST['comment'])."\n";

$headers .= 'From: Online Enquiry <server@xxx.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To:  ". $_POST['email'] ."  \r\n";	
$headers .= "Bcc: [email]private@xx.com[/email]\r\n"; 

$MailSuccess = mail($To, $Subject,  $Indhold, $headers); 
header("Location: thanks.php");
exit;
  }
}
?>

Thanks for your time.