RE: [PHP] mass mail and selected mailings
Unless I'm completely mistaken, the BCC field will not show up when the email is delivered. Robbert van Andel === -Original Message- From: Tim Thorburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] mass mail and selected mailings Hi, I've just been asked by a client to create a mass mail program in PHP which the client can use to send a single message to everyone in it's email database, but also have the option to select which email address the message will go to. I've done a simple script like this before which basically loops through the database, selects all the email addresses, and then sends out one big message. The problem with that one, was that the To: field listed all the email addresses that were sent. For obvious reasons, they do not want all email addresses included within the To:, CC:, or Bcc: fields. Using PHP's mail() function, is it possible to conceal the email addresses being sent? If there are not, are there any PHP/MySQL based applications that will do this? Keeping in mind that I am using a shared hosting provider and do not have direct access to the server itself. Thanks -Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mass mail and selected mailings
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:19:28 -0500, Tim Thorburn wrote about [PHP] mass mail and selected mailings what the universal translator turned into this: I've just been asked by a client to create a mass mail program in PHP which the client can use to send a single message to everyone in it's email database, but also have the option to select which email address the message will go to. I've done a simple script like this before which basically loops through the database, selects all the email addresses, and then sends out one big message. The problem with that one, was that the To: field listed all the email addresses that were sent. For obvious reasons, they do not want all email addresses included within the To:, CC:, or Bcc: fields. Using PHP's mail() function, is it possible to conceal the email addresses being sent? If there are not, are there any PHP/MySQL based applications that will do this? Keeping in mind that I am using a shared hosting provider and do not have direct access to the server itself. Why not just do it in a loop, and plump of one mail in each loop ??? The bulk mailer I've got works this way ... stick it one message, tell it which list of addresses to use, and of it goes .. spittin' out thousands of mails in a few seconds ... This one's a W32 GUI program ... Rene -- Rene Brehmer This message was written on 100% recycled spam. Come see! My brand new site is now online! http://www.metalbunny.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Mass Mail {?!}
I'd recommend this script with a few changes.
?
$Emails = array(Get your list of emails into the array somehow);
for($i=0; $icount($Emails); $i++) {
// send email code
usleep(delay in microseconds);
}
?
Matthew Walker
Senior Software Engineer
ePliant Marketing
-Original Message-
From: CDitty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:47 PM
To: Liam MacKenzie; PHP
Subject: Re: [PHP] Mass Mail {?!}
How about something like this.
?
$Total_emails = 100;
$i = 1;
if($Total_emails != $i){
// send email code
$i++;
}
?
This should be all you need. I used something similar to crash my
work's
email system by accident. :) Whoops.
CDitty
At 12:40 PM 4/22/2002 +1000, Liam MacKenzie wrote:
Hey all,
I was just wondering if someone's written a script that will let me
send
lots of emails to an address, but with a small pause inbetween emails.
And no I'm not using this for spam, I need to test a SMTP server that
I'm
developing.
Thanks for your help!
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RE: [PHP] Mass Mail {?!}
Or just:
While(True) {
// send email
sleep(1);
if($tired==True)
Break;
}
Count how many mails you want and quit :-)
Sincerely,
Maxim Maletsky
Founder, Chief Developer
www.PHPBeginner.com // where PHP Begins
-Original Message-
From: CDitty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:47 AM
To: Liam MacKenzie; PHP
Subject: Re: [PHP] Mass Mail {?!}
How about something like this.
?
$Total_emails = 100;
$i = 1;
if($Total_emails != $i){
// send email code
$i++;
}
?
This should be all you need. I used something similar to crash my
work's
email system by accident. :) Whoops.
CDitty
At 12:40 PM 4/22/2002 +1000, Liam MacKenzie wrote:
Hey all,
I was just wondering if someone's written a script that will let me
send
lots of emails to an address, but with a small pause inbetween emails.
And no I'm not using this for spam, I need to test a SMTP server that
I'm
developing.
Thanks for your help!
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Re: [PHP] Mass Mail {?!}
How about something like this.
?
$Total_emails = 100;
$i = 1;
if($Total_emails != $i){
// send email code
$i++;
}
?
This should be all you need. I used something similar to crash my work's
email system by accident. :) Whoops.
CDitty
At 12:40 PM 4/22/2002 +1000, Liam MacKenzie wrote:
Hey all,
I was just wondering if someone's written a script that will let me send
lots of emails to an address, but with a small pause inbetween emails.
And no I'm not using this for spam, I need to test a SMTP server that I'm
developing.
Thanks for your help!
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Re: [PHP] mass mail
yas, but that way they all end up in junk filters. Dont use bcc to send you mailing list - Original Message - From: Norbert Eder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kancha . [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20. veljaèa 2002 13:10 Subject: AW: [PHP] mass mail hi. maybe you put the first user into the to-field and all others into field blindcopy... you will need one mail and send it to all. but i don't know if there is a limit ... greetz -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Kancha . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2002 13:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [PHP] mass mail I've users in a database classified by differnet catagories. Now based on category I need to send mail to all the users in a category. Calling mail() function in a loop would be a kill for the server as there are more than 1000 users in each category. Is there any way of doing this ?? Creating a mailing list is not possible. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mass mail
Kancha . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've users in a database classified by differnet catagories. Now based on category I need to send mail to all the users in a category. Calling mail() function in a loop would be a kill for the server as there are more than 1000 users in each category. Is there any way of doing this ?? Creating a mailing list is not possible. You may want to use a PHP class that uses SMTP directly. There's one Manuel Lemos has written one which is available at http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/. Another option is to write the emails and recipients to a database and use a cron job to query the db every X minutes and deliver the messages Y recipients at a time until complete. You'd just need to flag the messages and recipients after they've been processed or delete them. I discussed the solution in a reply to a poster with a slightly different problem just a few minutes ago under the subject Timed Jobs. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
