You'll need to be careful with this method. In an effort to keep spam to a
minimum, some ISP's may refuse messages with more than X number of email
address attached. Then the question becomes: did everyone on the list
actually receive the message?
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; PHP List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] One mail function, multiple recipients
>instead of your while() loop calling mail() each time, use it to build a
>comma separated list of recipients, then pipe them into a Bcc (so as to not
>publicise everyone's email address), and send one email with all people in
>the Bcc list.
>
>UNTESTED code:
><?
>$bcc = '';
>
>$sql = "SELECT email FROM mailingListTable";
>$result = mysql_query($sql);
>
>while($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
> {
> $bcc .= $myrow['email'].',';
> }
>
>// $bcc will now look like:
>// [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],
>
>// trim off the trailing comma
>$bcc = substr($bcc, 0, -1);
>
>// prepare to send
>$to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
>$subject = 'My Mailing List';
>$message = 'This is my email message';
>$headers = 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n';
>$headers .= "Bcc: {$bcc}\r\n";
>
>// send
>mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
>?>
>
>
>Good luck -- like I said, untested code, so it may need some tweaking.
>
>
>Justin
>
>
>
>on 26/10/02 10:41 AM, Stephen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>> I'm pulling email addresses from a database, then emailing them a
newsletter
>> email. Right now, I'm calling the mail() function each time to send an
email
>> and that's slooow. How could I make it so all the emails are put into a
BCC
>> field then emailed all at once instead of multiple times?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen Craton
>> http://www.melchior.us
>> http://php.melchior.us
>
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