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[SOLVED] Confused about email example


jordanwb

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On the php.net website I'm looking at the mail function and I saw this example:

 

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

There is the $to paramater and the $headers parameter. Now the recipients are defined in both the $to variable and the $headers variable. Which would be considered for destinations? The emails addresses in the $headers variable is not the same as the email addresses in the $to variable.

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my understanding of email headrers, SMTP and sendmail things is that the emails specified in $to will get the email but it will say it is to the people in the headers field.

so if aidan got that email it would say it was to "Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>"

not aidan even though it is in his inbox.

and Mary and Kelly wouldn't receive a email.

 

Scott.

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