Sending multiple CC's and BCCs with PHP PEAR MAIL

Question

I have a project that I am working on at my job and I am using Pear's mailing. I need to use smtp because we need to be able to track everything from our mailserver. And users need to be able to log in before sending a company based email. We cannot use php's mail function fo this.

My problem is that I cant find any documentation on the net for sending CC and Bcc as well as sending multiple BCCs. It is very easy to do with php' mail funciton . All you do is add it to the $header variable like so

$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

This is my code for the php function where I use PEAR

function sender_mail($email,$subject,$mailmsg, $cc, $bcc){

    include("Mail.php");
    /* mail setup recipients, subject etc */

    //DEFAULT VALUE OF FROM 
    $from = "[email protected]";

    //GET EMAIL OF USER
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT email, email_pass FROM u_perinfo WHERE user_id = '$_SESSION[uid]'")
    or die("There was an error when grabbing your email information");
    if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0){
        $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
        if($row[0] != ''){
            $from = $row[0];
        }
        $email_pass = $row[1];
    }

    $recipients = "$email";
    $headers["From"] = "$from";
    $headers["To"] = "$email";
    $headers["Subject"] = $subject;
    $headers["Cc"] = "$cc";  //Line added by Me to see if it works
    $headers["Bcc"] = "$bcc";  //Line added by Me to see if it works


    //$mailmsg = "Welcome to Addatareference.com! \r\n\r\nBelow is your unique login information.  \r\n\r\n(Please do not share your login information.)$accountinfo";
    /* SMTP server name, port, user/passwd */
    $smtpinfo["host"] = "smtp.emailsrvr.com";
    $smtpinfo["port"] = "25";
    $smtpinfo["auth"] = true;
    $smtpinfo["username"] = "$from";
    $smtpinfo["password"] = "$email_pass";
    /* Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method */
    $mail_object =& Mail::factory("smtp", $smtpinfo);
    /* Ok send mail */
    $mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $mailmsg);

}

I have been trying to find a solution to this with no real info coming back my way. If someone could help me out with this I would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There is a problem with Bcc though when using the PEAR Mail function: Thunderbird displays the Bcc header, so the recipient is not hidden, which is the whole point of Bcc. It is also displayed in the To: header list (since you have to include the Bcc list in recipients).

Edit: SOLVED - I found from another site that the solution is just to include the Bcc list in the $recipients, and not in any of the headers. It works!

Thus:

$bcc = "[email protected]";
$to = "[email protected]";
$headers = array(..other stuff.., 'To' => $to, ..rest of header stuff); // No Bcc header!
$recipients = $to.", ".$bcc;
$mail = $smtp->send($recipients, $headers, $message);

Edit #2: Acknowledging my source - http://raamdev.com/2008/adding-cc-recipients-with-pear-mail/