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 Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 01/20/06 00:25 
On Tue, January 17, 2006 9:12 am, ET Support wrote: 
> I am having a problem using PHP's mail function to send mail via BCC 
> to 
> multiple recipients. Here's my code; 
> -------------------------------------- 
> $get_emails = pg_exec($dbh,"SELECT email FROM mailing_list WHERE conf 
> = 1"); 
> $count = pg_numrows($get_emails); 
> $bcc_count = $envelope_count = 0; 
> $bcc_limit = 200; 
> $subject = $body = 'test message'; 
> $from = 'support@earthtecinc.com'; 
> $header = "From: $from\r\n"; 
 
You probably want Reply-to: here as well... 
 
> for($x = 0; $x < $count; $x++) { 
> 	$email = pg_result($get_emails,$x,0); 
> 	if($bcc_count >= $bcc_limit) { 
> 		if($x > 0) { 
> 			$envelope_count++; 
> 			mail($from,$subject,$body,$headers); 
> 		} 
> 		$headers = $header . "Bcc: $email\r\n"; 
 
> 		$bcc_count = 1; 
> 	} else { 
> 		$headers .= "Bcc: $email\r\n"; 
> 		$bcc_count++; 
> 	} 
> } 
> # send the last envelope 
> mail($from,$subject,$body,$headers); 
> -------------------------------------- 
> 
> The problem is that for some recipients they get a message body like 
> this; 
> 
> -------------------------------------- 
> Message-Id: <20060116170640.424CFA51997@earthtecinc.com> 
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:06:40 +0000 (GMT) 
> 
> test message 
> -------------------------------------- 
> 
> Any idea why those headers are being inserted into the message body 
> and how 
> that can be prevented? 
 
If $email contains a newline, or a \r\n, then you might see that... 
 
Because your Bcc: $email\r\n turns into: 
 
Bcc: junk\n 
\r\n 
Message-Id: <....> 
 
 
At which point you're not in the heades any more because your 'email' 
forced you out of them with a blank line. 
 
How 'clean' are the emails in your database?... :-) 
 
If they've come from a web signup form, and you weren't validating the 
input, then I guarantee you've got spammers trying to use your form to 
send out junk by forcing newlines and the headers THEY want into your 
'email' field... 
 
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