Re: mail() Bcc:

----- Original Message ----- From: "CPT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> To: "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com>; "Oden Odenius" <oden_php@hotmail.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] mail() Bcc: > > > How can send bcc: with mail()? > > > > > From, CC and BCC are headers to be set in the fourth parameter of the > mail() > > function. Headers must be spearated by end-of-line characters. > > > > $headers = "From: me@mydomain.com\r\n > > CC: you@yourdomain.com\r\n > > BCC: them@theirdomain.com"; > > > > mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers); > > > > There are many other headers that you may find useful that are just as > easy > > to add through the mail() function. > > I don't think that'll work. The concept is right, but the way you are typing > it, you're actually adding in two line breaks between each header. That's > going to cause your CC: and BCC: header to show up in the body of the > message because anything after two consecutive line breaks is considered the > body. > > You can do it like this: > > $headers = "From: me@mydomain.com\r\nCC: you@yourdomain.com\r\nBCC: > them@theirdomain.com"; > > or > > $headers = "From: me@mydomain.com > CC: you@yourdomain.com > BCC: them@theirdomain.com"; > > Also, you may want to check the regs on the capitalization of the headers. > If I'm wrong, someone please let me know, but some servers may only accept > Bcc: instead of bcc: or BCC:, etc... ?? Does anyone know if that matters? If > it does, is it only dependant upon the sending SMTP server and not any > servers the message is sent through or the receiving server? > > Thanks. > > ---John Holmes... \r\n should be used (esspecially in email!) to be compatible with all operating systems. However there were mistakes in my example. Notedly the string I supplied would break the header with superfulous \n end-of-line characters. The "safe" syntax would be.. $headers = "From: me@mydomain.com\r\n"; $headers .= "CC: you@yourdomain.com\r\n"; $headers .= "BCC: theme@theirdomain.com\r\n"; In one continuous line. I do believe headers are case insensitive. HTH, Kevin