Bcc not working in email script

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Bcc not working in email script

caffinated

6:03 pm on Nov 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

Hello

Here is a script I am using for emailing subscribers:

<?php
$to = 'someone@address.com';
$subject = 'discount etc';
$message = '

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><meta charset="UTF-8" />
</head>

<body>
 {content is included here}
</body>
</html>
';

$headers = 'From: me@me.com' ."\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' ."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF8' ."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: person1@address.com, person2@address.com, person3@address.com' ."\r\n";

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

Everything works fine, except non of the BCC addresses are working.

When I check the inbound email for the $to: recipient, all of the headers are being processed and received...all but the bcc addresses.

Any clues why?

PS. Yes I know there are out-of-the-box packages out there, that's not the solution I'm looking for thanks.

rainborick

6:58 pm on Nov 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

Looks OK to me at first glance. But if you're grasping for straws, you might test the script on a different server just to be sure that the host isn't blocking 'Bcc' fields to reduce SPAM.

penders

10:59 am on Nov 5, 2011 (gmt 0)

Maybe a security issue? Some (shared) servers prevent emails from being BCC'd to addresses on another domain. But you should get an error logged if this is the case of the form...

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 554 <joe@anotherdomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied

caffinated

12:39 pm on Nov 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

many thanks guys. I'm looking into the security matter then.

jatar_k

1:01 pm on Nov 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

unless I am misunderstanding

When I check the inbound email for the $to: recipient

you're looking for the Bcc in the received email? that would sort of go against the point of bcc if you could see them there.

put another of your addresses in the bcc and see if you receive the email.

caffinated

1:19 pm on Nov 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

Yeah Jatar_k that's what I already did. None of the bcc emails arrived - hence my original question. But sometimes the obvious is missed, so thanks for covering that off.

jatar_k

1:51 pm on Nov 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

yeah, sorry, just checking

you could also play with the order, it often makes a difference

try moving your bcc right after your from

<added>you could even try just using \n instead of \r\n

playing around with headers and line endings is sometimes a help, especially if there are no errors

also make sure all the addresses/servers are good

also adding more headers may be paart of the issue as your receiving mail server could just be burning it if it sees it as spam

so many points where an email could fail