mail() and Bcc:

How do I send blind carbon copies with mail() ?
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*** Fat Bloke wrote/escribió (Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:32:39 +0000):
> How do I send blind carbon copies with mail() ?

Simply add a custom header:

bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string addition
al_headers [, string additional_parameters]] )

mail($to, $subject, $message, "BCC: my@hidden.recipient");
mail($to, $subject, $message, "BCC: my@hidden.recipient\nX-Another-Header: F
oo");

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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:54:16 +0100, Alvaro G Vicario
<alvaro_QUITAR_REMOVE@telecomputeronline.com> wrote:

>*** Fat Bloke wrote/escribió (Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:32:39 +0000): 
>
>Simply add a custom header:
>
>bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additio
nal_headers [, string additional_parameters]] )
>
>mail($to, $subject, $message, "BCC: my@hidden.recipient");
>mail($to, $subject, $message, "BCC: my@hidden.recipient\nX-Another-Header: 
Foo");
>
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>-- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
Thanx for your reply. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to want to work (if I
have the text right, that is).
I used this -
mail("me@mydomain.com", "test", "test of Bcc message", "BCC:
someone_else@mydomain.com");
and got the original message, but not the Bcc:

Have I got it wrong somewhere?

Iain.
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*** Fat Bloke wrote/escribió (Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:32:49 +0000):
> mail("me@mydomain.com", "test", "test of Bcc message", "BCC:
> someone_else@mydomain.com");

Apart from writing Bcc rather than BCC (that's the usual way, not the one I
wrote) I can't see anything different from what I do. However, I'm using a
Linux server. That the following apply to you?:

"The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix
implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages
but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening
on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote
machine). Second, the custom headers like From:, Cc:, Bcc: and Date: are
not interpreted by the MTA in the first place, but are parsed by PHP. PHP <
4.3 only supported the Cc: header element (and was case-sensitive). PHP >=
4.3 supports all the mentioned header elements and is no longer
case-sensitive."



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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:45:20 +0100, Alvaro G Vicario
<alvaro_QUITAR_REMOVE@telecomputeronline.com> wrote:

>*** Fat Bloke wrote/escribió (Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:32:49 +0000): 
>
>Apart from writing Bcc rather than BCC (that's the usual way, not the one I
>wrote) I can't see anything different from what I do. However, I'm using a
>Linux server. That the following apply to you?:
[snip]

Aaahhh!  Idiot-Features here was getting his forwarding routines all
mixed-up on the server.
It's woiking poifectly!  Thank you!
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