How do I set a BCC address when sending email in PHP? (PHP email header BCC web development phpmailer)

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jgivoni

Sep 04, 2006 - 05:38 PM

Bcc is set by adding something like this to the additional headers parameter:

"Bcc: copyme@example.com\r\n"

This should work from PHP 4.3 onwards.

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redcharcoal

Sep 05, 2006 - 07:36 AM

If you don't feel like writing the headers yourself, you might find it easy to use the PHPMailer class. It's quite professional and allows cc, bcc, multiple addresses, smtp authentication, attachments and so on.

You will need to download the classes from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ and then use some code like this :

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.site.com;smtp2.site.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "from@email.com";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
$mail->AddAddress("josh@site.com","Josh Adams");
$mail->addBCC("joe@site.com","Joe Tailer");

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the body";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message was not sent

";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";