php mail sending script

[eXPlosion]

here is mail controller class

 

    <?php

    

    namespace App\Http\Controllers;

    

    use Illuminate\Http\Request;

    use App\Http\Requests;

    use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

    use App\MassMail;

    use App\Contact;

    use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

    use Mail;

    

    class MassMailController extends Controller

    {

        public function index()

        {

            $mails = MassMail::orderBy('date_sent', 'DESC')->get();

            return view('mail.mass.index')->with('mails', $mails);

        }

    

        public function show($id)

        {

            $mail = MassMail::findOrFail($id);

            return view('mail.mass.show')->with('mail', $mail);

        }

    

        public function create()

        {

            $movies = Auth::user()->movies()->lists('title', 'id');

    

            return view('mail.mass.create')->with('movies', $movies);

        }

    

        public function send(Requests\EmailTemplateRequest $request)

        {

            $emails = Contact::whereNotNull('email')->lists('email')->toArray();

    

            Mail::send(['text' => 'emails.plain'], ['text' => $request->message], function ($message) use ($request, $emails) {

                $message->from('info@someone.com', $request->sender);

                $message->subject($request->subject);

                $message->to($emails);

            });

            //send

            $mail = new MassMail($request->all());

            $mail->date_sent = \Carbon\Carbon::now();

            $mail->recipent_count = count($emails);

            \Auth::user()->massMail()->save($mail);

            $contacts = Contact::whereNotNull('email')->lists('id')->toArray();

            foreach($contacts as $contact){

                $mail->recipents()->attach($contact);

            }

            return redirect('mail/mass');

        }

    

    }

 

There is a requirement that multiple receivers won't see other receivers. Like blind copy. How to modify it?

Thanks.

There is also mass mail class, which looks like this:

 

    <?php

    

    namespace App;

    

    use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

    

    class MassMail extends Model

    {

        /**

         * The table associated with the model.

         *

         * @var string

         */

        protected $table = 'mass_mails';

    

        protected $fillable = [

            'sender',

            'subject',

            'message',

            'movie_id'

        ];

    

        public $timestamps = false;

    

        public function recipents()

        {

            return $this->belongsToMany('App\Contact', 'contact_mass_mail_pivot', 'mass_mail_id', 'contact_id');

        }

    }

 

Any ideas?

[AzeS]

like a differrent sender each time or what ? 

[eXPlosion]

like a differrent sender each time or what ? 

 

No, receivers should not see other receivers in email (email contains many receivers). Like bcc (blind copy) in outlook

[AzeS]

Roughly speaking; Locate the emails of the recieving people and remove them, or simplie dont do email lists like : $email_to = "jhewitt@amleo.com,some@other.com,yet@another.net"; in the first place, im no expert in this but, if i would do that, i would create a simple mail funktion and an for each loop that reads an array with all the recievers and then sends them by triggering the function

you might use http://php.net/manual/de/class.thread.php if you have a massive ammount of emails.   

 

[eXPlosion]

I'm wondering would it work if i change

 $message->to($emails);

 to 

$message->bcc($emails);

Edited March 13, 2017 by eXPlosion

[ginerjm]

I don't know what actual mail command you are using or what mailing package, but usually the bcc: is setup in the header of the email being sent. Check out the simple PHP "mail()" function in the official php manual to see what the headers should have in them.