Re: One mail function, multiple recipients

Agreed. Case in point, when I attach more 9 email addresses to one email message via Netzero's servers (1 of 7 different email accounts I have), the delivery fails with a message that reads something like: ' Blah Blah Blah. Too many recipients. Blah Blah Blah.' I could be mistaken about service providers name because I change and redirect my mail on the fly to avoid lengthy email distrubances. -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> To: php-general@lists.php.net <php-general@lists.php.net> Date: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] One mail function, multiple recipients >Hello, > >On 10/27/2002 06:23 PM, Dwalker wrote: >> 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? > >The ISP that refuse messages to many recipients in BCC, certainly will >not allow you to send separate messages to the as many recipients >because that overloads even more their servers. That has nothing to do >with whether you are sending spam or solicited bulk mail like >newsletters. Thas has to do with abusing the mail server resources >compromising the quality of service to other customers . > >Whether you send separate messages or a single message with all >recipients in Bcc, you need to ask your ISP if you are not infringing >the acceptable use policy. In shared servers you are most likely abusing. > >Regards, >Manuel Lemos > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Justin French <justin@indent.com.au> >> To: Stephen <webmaster@melchior.us>; PHP List <php-general@lists.php.net> >> 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'].','; >>> } >>> >>>// $bcc will now look like: >>>// justin@indent.com.au,webmaster@melchior.us,bob@somewhere.com, >>> >>>// trim off the trailing comma >>>$bcc = substr($bcc, 0, -1); >>> >>>// prepare to send >>>$to = 'dummyAddress@somewhere.com'; >>>$subject = 'My Mailing List'; >>>$message = 'This is my email message'; >>>$headers = 'From: me@mine.com\r\n'; >>>$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 (webmaster@melchior.us) 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 >>> >>> >>>-- >>>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> > > >-- > >Regards, >Manuel Lemos > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >