Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
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Last Post: August 12, 2010 (RSS)
A client of mine wants to make sure that their e-mail lists (now in a field in a CMSB multi-record section) can't be sent except through the use of a BCC: field. I guess they've had one too many gaffs where e-mails were sent using the To: or CC: Field, exposing their entire list to the world.
Oh, the list is always pulled from the same table but with different search criteria based on the contents of a second or third field.
I took a quick look at some of the PHP email scripts out there but am leery of just grabbing one because of the potential for messing things up and forf creating security or system overload issues. Then there's the issue of interfacing with CMSB.
Has anyone had any experience in this area, and with breaking a recipient list down automatically so that there are only a predetermined number of e-mails sent at a time.
Thanks,
Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By flamerz - January 24, 2010
http://www.xellsoft.com/TurboMailer.html
its easy to import csv mails.. and still no problems with this mailer.
i dont know how to do this from CMSB.
Re: [gkornbluth] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Djulia - January 24, 2010
You can perhaps use the function sleep ?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php
...and to look at here :
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/260.htm
Djulia
Re: [gkornbluth] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Djulia - January 24, 2010 - edited: January 24, 2010
require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";
$req1="SELECT email from {$TABLE_PREFIX}newsletter";
$result = mysql_query ($req1);
echo mysql_error();
$between_delay = 10; $send_delay = 1;
for ( $sent=0; $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $sent++ ) {
if ( ($sent % $between_delay) == 0 )
sleep( $send_delay );
$emailall = $row[0];
$subject = 'Test newsletter';
$message = 'This is a test.';
// set headers as per your requirements
$headers = 'From: xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx' . "\r\n" .
'BCC: [url "http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum.cgi?url=mailto%3Axxxxx%40xxxxxx.xxx%27"]xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx'[/#0000ff][/url] . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if ( mail($emailall, $subject, $message, $headers) ) {
echo 'Message sent!';
} else {
echo 'Message failed, contact webmaster for more info!';
}
} Re: [Djulia] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Djulia - January 24, 2010
Djulia
Re: [Djulia] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Djulia - January 24, 2010
http://www.hosthideout.com/showthread.php?t=3163
Re: [Djulia] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
a great beginning.
Has anyone integrated the BCC issue with CMSB?
Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Djulia - January 24, 2010 - edited: January 24, 2010
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
[font "Courier New"]$headers .= "BCC: xxxxx@xxx.com"[font "Courier New"];
Re: [Djulia] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
By Chris - January 25, 2010
I'm not sure what you mean by integrating the BCC issue with CMSB. What kind of integration are we talking about?
Chris
Re: [chris] Forcing BCC: when e-mailing
Thanks for looking at this one.
I guess that what I’m looking for, and I’ve been out of town and not able to play around much, is this:
I’ve created a number of detail viewers (templates) for various types of organizational e-mails, all populated from a multi-record section called “eblasts”. (Press releases, event announcements, membership expiration notices, etc. all having a slightly different layout)
I want to be able to send the viewer that was created by these templates to an e-mail list that is generated by another multi-record editor called “artists” which would be filtered by various criteria ie: all members, only members who haven’t paid for the current year, etc.
Right now I’m doing this manually by:
1) Creating a viewer with embedded CSS styling, opening the viewer for the particular e-mail in Internet Explorer, then using the built in “send page as e-mail” function, creating an e-mail of the page.
2) Generating a filtered e-mail list from the “Artists” section and copying and pasting the resulting e-mail list into the BCC: field of the e-mail generated in step 1.
3) Addressing the e-mail To: field with the appropriate return address and sending the e-mail from the appropriate e-mail account.
I’d like to automate the process from CMSB so that once the eblast was created, it could be sent to the appropriate list without leaving the CMSB interface.
I like the basic approach that Djulia outlined above, but want to make sure that the generated e-mail list will only be entered into the “BCC:” field, That the appropriate “To:” address is filled in (from a “pull down” or “check box” list field) and that the e-mails get sent out in batches that are defined by “e-mails per batch” and “batches per hour” fields.
Hope that makes it clearer.
Thanks,
Jerry Kornbluth
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