Email a list?

[rottenpixies]

Anyone know a smart way of mass emailing from a list that has a new email on every line. Does the server have to take a break between mail functions for it to work properly?

[liam1412]

Im not so sure what you mean.  Can you not just send it through using a while loop to put all the email addys in the to: box of one e-mail.

[akitchin]

this depends on how you want to send the e-mail.  you can either send it as one e-mail with a comma-delimited list of recipients (akin to adding a whole bunch of people into one composition in Outlook or similar), or you can force it to loop through each recipient and send an individual e-mail.

[per1os]

Anyone know a smart way of mass emailing from a list that has a new email on every line. Does the server have to take a break between mail functions for it to work properly?

 

<?php
$emails = file('email.txt');

foreach ($emails as $email) {
      mail($email, $sub, $message, $headers);
}
?>

 

That will work, but for a big list it is best to section it off or use a mailing que like PEAR::Mail or maybe phpMailer.

[rottenpixies]

I'm looking to have it send an individual email to each person so it looks like the mail was sent just to them.

[liam1412]

Okay all you need to do is loop through the details using a while loop and a create a mail function for each one then

 

Assuming your taking the data from the database select the e-mail address using this

$get_addy = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM users")

while($array = mysql_fetch_array($get_addy)){

create your mail function here

}

 

This will loop through your database until there is no users left.  Im no exchange expert but im sure it would just que them up if php was running faster than the mailer could send.

[rottenpixies]

I'm not pulling the emails out of a DB just a txt file with a new email for each line. Couldn't run your script for some reason frost, thanks in advances for posts!

[liam1412]

You can still use the same principle but collecting from a text file instead.  Did you get any errors

[GingerRobot]

How is your text file laid out? Is it simply an email or each line or is there other information? And what did you mean by you couldn't run the script? Did you get any errors?

[rottenpixies]

This is what I am attempting:

 

$file = fopen($entry, 'r');
while (!feof($file)) {
$line = fgets($file);
$sub = "www.leadmasterz.com";
$message = "Come visit www.leadmasterz.com.";
$headers = "From: info@leadmasterz.com";
    mail($line, $sub, $message, $headers);  ;
  }
  fclose($file);

 

I get the following error: Warning: mail(): Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent.

[rottenpixies]

Yes the email file just contains a single email on each line with no other information...

blahblah@yahoo.com
testtest@aol.com
rottenpixies@email.com

[liam1412]

Ginger - I've not really dealt with file handling yet apart from to upload so you may be better on this one.

[rottenpixies]

I removed the extra semi-colon and that didn't fix the problem I still get the following error: Warning: mail(): Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent.

 

It seems to be sending it to the first email in the list but not to the next few, do I need to have some kind of a timeout of pause function in between each mail send?

[gtk]

Anyone know a smart way of mass emailing from a list that has a new email on every line. Does the server have to take a break between mail functions for it to work properly?

 

<?php
$emails = file('email.txt');

foreach ($emails as $email) {
      mail($email, $sub, $message, $headers);
}
?>

 

That will work, but for a big list it is best to section it off or use a mailing que like PEAR::Mail or maybe phpMailer.

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[cooldude832]

you can't just say that you need to explode the flat file apart at the break lines general \n of UTF-8 I think

[cooldude832]

also your idea is a privacy no no you need to set each additional user as a BCC not a recipent to mask all email adderssses