Re: Mail, array of recipients

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:08:30 -0400, Sean Brown <sean@sean-brown.com> wrote: > In the pear manual examples for the send method, it shows: > > send (mixed $recipients, string $headers, string $body); > > When I send out an e-mail from an app, it works, however, it does not seem > to properly populate the "To" header based on the recipient array. What I > mean by that is if I examine the headers after having received the email, > the "To" header is completely missing. If I manually set the "To" header, > it works. However, as you can imagine, unless my recipient array has only > one person, this method wouldn't work. I'd have to loop through each > individual in the recipient array, create a new object, then call the method > again and again. > > Here's a snip from my code: > > $recipients = array('someone@example.com','someoneelse@example.com'); > > $smtparray = array(); > $smtparray["host"] = 'smtp.example.com'; > $smtparray["auth"] = FALSE; > > $crlf = "\r\n"; > $from = "me@example.com (Web Master)"; > $hdrs = array(); > $hdrs["From"] = $from; > $hdrs["Subject"] = $subject; > $hdrs["Reply-To"] = $from_address; > > $mime = new Mail_mime($crlf); > $mime->setTXTBody($plaintextmessage); > $mime->setHTMLBody($htmlmessage); > $body = $mime->get(); > $hdrs = $mime->headers($hdrs); > $mailObj =& Mail::factory('smtp',$smtparray); > > if (isset($recipients) && ($recipients)) { > $result = $mailObj->send($recipients, $hdrs, $body); > if (PEAR::isError($result)) { > return $result -> getMessage(); > } else { > return "Success."; > } > } else { > return "Your e-mail has NOT been sent.<br>Please select at least one > recipient."; > } > > Has anyone run into this? Is there a fix? > I would say this is expected bahavior. If you want all of them in the To use this: $hdrs['To'] = implode(', ', $recipients); $mail->send($recipients, $hdrs, $body); If you want each to have their own To: foreach($recipients as $recipient) { $myHdrs = $hdrs; $myHdrs['To'] = $recipient; $mail->send($recipient, $myHdrs, $body); } I believe it's set up this way so that you can: 1) Not have a To: 2) Set everyone in the To: 3) Set only one person in the To: > Thanks, > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--