Forcing BCC: when e-mailing

i use this soft:

http://www.xellsoft.com/TurboMailer.html

its easy to import csv mails.. and still no problems with this mailer.

i dont know how to do this from CMSB.

Hi,

You can perhaps use the function sleep ?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php

...and to look at here :
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/260.htm

Djulia

require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";

$req1="SELECT email from {$TABLE_PREFIX}newsletter";

$result = mysql_query ($req1);
echo mysql_error();

$between_delay = 10; $send_delay = 1;

for ( $sent=0; $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $sent++ ) {
if ( ($sent % $between_delay) == 0 )
sleep( $send_delay );
$emailall = $row[0];

$subject = 'Test newsletter';
$message = 'This is a test.';


// set headers as per your requirements
$headers = 'From: xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx' . "\r\n" .
'BCC: [url "http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum.cgi?url=mailto%3Axxxxx%40xxxxxx.xxx%27"]xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx'[/#0000ff][/url] . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

if ( mail($emailall, $subject, $message, $headers) ) {
echo 'Message sent!';
} else {
echo 'Message failed, contact webmaster for more info!';
}

}

The code above functions for me (but must be certainly optimized).

Djulia

In fact, I am not certain that it is the good solution:
http://www.hosthideout.com/showthread.php?t=3163

Wow Thank you all

a great beginning.

Has anyone integrated the BCC issue with CMSB?

Jerry

Can't this page help you ?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[font "Courier New"]$headers .= "BCC: xxxxx@xxx.com"[font "Courier New"];

Hi Jerry,

I'm not sure what you mean by integrating the BCC issue with CMSB. What kind of integration are we talking about?

Hi Chris,

Thanks for looking at this one.

I guess that what I’m looking for, and I’ve been out of town and not able to play around much, is this:

I’ve created a number of detail viewers (templates) for various types of organizational e-mails, all populated from a multi-record section called “eblasts”. (Press releases, event announcements, membership expiration notices, etc. all having a slightly different layout)

I want to be able to send the viewer that was created by these templates to an e-mail list that is generated by another multi-record editor called “artists” which would be filtered by various criteria ie: all members, only members who haven’t paid for the current year, etc.

Right now I’m doing this manually by:

1) Creating a viewer with embedded CSS styling, opening the viewer for the particular e-mail in Internet Explorer, then using the built in “send page as e-mail” function, creating an e-mail of the page.

2) Generating a filtered e-mail list from the “Artists” section and copying and pasting the resulting e-mail list into the BCC: field of the e-mail generated in step 1.

3) Addressing the e-mail To: field with the appropriate return address and sending the e-mail from the appropriate e-mail account.

I’d like to automate the process from CMSB so that once the eblast was created, it could be sent to the appropriate list without leaving the CMSB interface.

I like the basic approach that Djulia outlined above, but want to make sure that the generated e-mail list will only be entered into the “BCC:” field, That the appropriate “To:” address is filled in (from a “pull down” or “check box” list field) and that the e-mails get sent out in batches that are defined by “e-mails per batch” and “batches per hour” fields.

Hope that makes it clearer.

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth