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why bcc emails sent via php mail are not hidden

i am trying to send emails via Bcc and i was expecting that they were hidden but it seems not. Maybe my code is not correct?

// grab all emails from txt file
$myfile = fopen("database-email.txt", "r") or die("Unable to open file!");
$allEmails = fread($myfile,filesize("database-email.txt"));
fclose($myfile);

$afzender = "[email protected]";

$to = '[email protected]';

$subject = 'Nieuwsbrief de Wisselslag';

$headers = "From: " . $afzender . "\r\n";   
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: " . $allEmails  . "\r\n";

if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
  echo 'Bericht is verstuurd!';
} else {
  echo 'There was a problem sending the email.';
}

So i have a database-email.txt file in which all the emails are stored, comma seperated from each other like this:

[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],

When sending to my gmail account, i can see this:

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How is this possible that i can see to where the email also is sent to?

Solution

  • The email list should not have new line character.

    Make it one line:

    $allEmails = str_replace(array("\n","\r"), '', $allEmails);

// [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]