PHPMailer Mass mailing using BCC and catching not successfull email addressses

Question

I am trying to send NewsLetter to 1500 users using PHPMailer and my SMTP servers.

I have tried sending the mails to 2 BCC emails for test, and it sucessfully sent mails. But before I go ahead and send the mail to 1500 email address, I have few questions.

I am using this code snippet.

<?php

require "../PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php";

$bcc_list = array('emailaddrs1,emailaddress2');

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host       = "smtp.myserver.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                                           // 1 = errors and messages
                                           // 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host       = "smtp.myserver.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 25;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "[email protected]"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password   = "mypasss";        // SMTP account password

$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'myserver Support');

$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","myserver Support");

$mail->Subject    = "Email sent from xampp";

$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$address = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "[email protected]");


foreach($bcc_list as $bcc_email){
   $mail->AddBCC($bcc_email);
}

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
 //insert that emaill address into database for re-emailing.
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

1) How can i make , the email show users email address in <To> field and not my dummy address ?

2) Does it send as 1 email or 1500 emails ? i.e., how can I catch which emails are successfully sent and which arent ( because of some timeout or something goes wrong) so I can send them again, and not have to spam the all others?

I'm pretty sure it's actually built into the email protocol that you can't detect which are successful. Otherwise, this information could be used maliciously to discover email addresses for spamming purposes. — Sildoreth
@Sildoreth i am not trying to find which hit the mailbox, i am just trying to find which i have sent successfully, in case something goes wrong , like timeout in script , big latency and/or SMTP server closes connection, or kicks me out or limits the BCC count. — user1642018

Synchro Synchro · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-12T07:17:44

In your code you are sending one message to 1 address and BCCing to all the others, so there is only a single To address - this is just how BCC works. If you want to have each recipient's address shown as the To address, you must send each message individually - look at the mailing list example provided. If you want to spot failures in a long list of recipients of any kind, make sure you're using an up-to-date version of PHPMailer as that was buggy in the past. Any bad addresses will be reported in $mail->ErrorInfo.

PHPMailer Mass mailing using BCC and catching not successfull email addressses

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