what is wrong with this mail script

[yoelgold@yahoo.com]

$msubject = "Price Change";
$tomail = "yoelg...@yahoo .com";
$mfrom = "From: Baltimore Trails <i...@baltimore trails.com>\r\n ";
$mbody = "text....asdfas dfasdfasdfasdfa sdf";
$bcchead1 = "Bcc: i...@baltimoret rails.com\r\n";
$bcchead2 = "Bcc: yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com\r \n";
$header = "$mfrom $bcchead1 $bcchead2";
mail($tomail, $msubject, $mbody, $header);
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this is what yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com email looks like:
the From field in MS outlook = "Baltimore Trails Bcc:
yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com"
and the To: field = "yoelg...@yahoo .com"


how do I make that the email in the bcc field should not see the To
field, they should see there email in the to field?
and why is the from field the way it is?


As far as the email for yoelg...@yahoo. com everything seems to be fine
with that

[Ken Robinson]

Re: what is wrong with this mail script

"yoelgold@yahoo .com" <yoelgold@yahoo .com> wrote in
news:1125523135 .041204.139310@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com (in part):
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> $msubject = "Price Change";
> $tomail = "yoelg...@yahoo .com";
> $mfrom = "From: Baltimore Trails <i...@baltimore trails.com>\r\n ";
> $mbody = "text....asdfas dfasdfasdfasdfa sdf";
> $bcchead1 = "Bcc: i...@baltimoret rails.com\r\n";
> $bcchead2 = "Bcc: yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com\r \n";
> $header = "$mfrom $bcchead1 $bcchead2";
> mail($tomail, $msubject, $mbody, $header);
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> this is what yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com email looks like:
> the From field in MS outlook = "Baltimore Trails Bcc:
> yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com"
> and the To: field = "yoelg...@yahoo .com"[/color]

Try this instead:

msubject = 'Price Change';
$tomail = 'yoelg...@yahoo .com';
$mfrom = 'From: Baltimore Trails <i...@baltimore trails.com>'."\ r\n";
$mbody = "text....asdfas dfasdfasdfasdfa sdf";
$header = $mfrom;
$header .= 'Bcc: i...@baltimoret rails.com';
$header .= ',yoelg...@balt imoretrails.com '."\r\n";

Your original way of creating the header put spaces in the string which
probably messed up the email headers. Also, the addresses in the BCC
header should be separated with commas.

Ken

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: what is wrong with this mail script

*** yoelgold@yahoo. com wrote/escribió (31 Aug 2005 14:18:55 -0700):[color=blue]
> $mfrom = "From: Baltimore Trails <i...@baltimore trails.com>\r\n ";
> $mbody = "text....asdfas dfasdfasdfasdfa sdf";
> $bcchead1 = "Bcc: i...@baltimoret rails.com\r\n";
> $bcchead2 = "Bcc: yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com\r \n";
> $header = "$mfrom $bcchead1 $bcchead2";[/color]

This code creates these headers:

From: Baltimore Trails <i...@baltimore trails.com>
Bcc: i...@baltimoret rails.com
Bcc: yoelg...@baltim oretrails.com

If first char in line is a white space, mail server will think it's not a
new header but the previous one continued. Remove unwanted spaces.


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[yoelgold@yahoo.com]

Re: what is wrong with this mail script

thank you Ken and Alvaro for your replys

another question. when i ran the script by typing the php file address
in to Internet Explorer, it only sent out like 56 out of about 68
emails. it came back with a 30 second time out error. sorry i dont
remember the exact error message. any idea what and how to correct this

thank you

[Andy Hassall]

Re: what is wrong with this mail script

On 13 Sep 2005 14:15:08 -0700, "yoelgold@yahoo .com" <yoelgold@yahoo .com> wrote:
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>another question. when i ran the script by typing the php file address
>in to Internet Explorer, it only sent out like 56 out of about 68
>emails. it came back with a 30 second time out error. sorry i dont
>remember the exact error message. any idea what and how to correct this[/color]

Sent less in a batch, tune your mail server, or increase the PHP execution
time limit http://uk2.php.net/set_time_limit

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