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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[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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>>
>
>
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>
>Regards,
>Manuel Lemos
>
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