[thelist] Re: PHP mail to many recipients

[patrick]

Timothy Joko-Veltman wrote:
> Bird, Graham wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seamus - thanks for the tip, but I'm worried that there will be a
>> performance hit. How many mails have you sent using a loop?
>>
> 
> I just put all the addresses  into a comma-separated list (with a loop
> or implode() ), then put this in the Bcc header, using an "archive" or
> administrative address for the main recipient (and Reply-To).  Using Bcc
> means no one will see anyone else's address ... and I can send the
> message with one call to mail() ...  I've found this to be much simpler,
> and it probably saves a few CPU cycles, to boot.
> 
> Timothy

This won't scale well, I don't think. You could easily be SPAM blocked
for this.

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