Duplicate/Multiple emails sent from one email address

[noeldesigns]

I am using the SMTP mailer with the include file: include 'class.phpmailer.php';

The parameters were changed for my hosting service and port.

I loop through the database to get email addresses and for a test I selected (3) email addresses. Using echo statements, the loop is processing correctly and sends emails.

The issue is that it sends email to each email address multiple times.

The loop appears to be working correctly as I have tested it with a $count++ to see how many times the loop is actually executing, and the count is correct.

Here is the code that I use for the loop and the mail. Is there something in the mail server that sends multiple emails.

$get_emails = send_email_all_contacts($start_id, $end_id);
//print_r($get_emails);
foreach($get_emails as $email) {

$user_id = $email['id'];    
$first_name = $email['first_name'];
$last_name = $email['last_name'];
$email = $email['email'];
$to = $email;
$send_to_name = $first_name;

$subject = $email_title;
$body = $email_text;
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->SetFrom('changed to actual address', 'changed to actual name');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
//$mail->AddReplyTo('changed to actual email address', 'changed to actual name');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->AddAddress($to, $send_to_name);
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = $email_title;
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded, convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
//$mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'), dirname(FILE));
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->Body = $email_text;
$mail->AltBody = $email_text;
//Attach an image file
//$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif');

//Send the message, check for errors
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo 'Emails did not get sent to this address', '
', $user_id,'
', $first_name, '
', $email, '
' ;
} else {
//echo 'Emails sent to this address', '
', $user_id,'
', $first_name, '
', $email, '
' ;
}

$count++;
echo 'number of times script executed', $count,'
';
}

Thanks

Grant

[Synchro]

I'd suspect your mail server - I've had both gmail and hotmail do this without any involvement from PHPMailer. Look at the source of the received messaged and look at their mesage IDs, and also look at your mail server logs. You can also enable SMTP debug output to get a transcript of the SMTP conversations.

[noeldesigns]

Thanks for the feedback. There are other issues as well. When an email is sent through the loop, the 1st email should go to person 1, the 2nd to person2, etc. However what is happening is that the first email is going to person1, the 2nd email is going to both person1 and person2, the 3rd email is going to person 1, person 2 and person 3.

To test, I set the $to field back to blank before sending the next email, but this doesn't seem to help.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Grant

[Synchro]

You need to call clearAddresses() between messages, otherwise you're adding an address each time round the loop. There are similar functions for clearing CC, BCC etc too.
Don't include the classes directly - there is an autoloader that will work better:
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

[noeldesigns]

Thanks, I will definitely do that. I think the PHPMailerAutoLoad.php must have come out after I downloaded the version that I have. Quick question. If I included the autoload, do I also need to include the classes or does the autoload do that. Thanks, Grant

[Synchro]

It was introduced quite recently. No, you don't need to load the classes, that's what autoloaders are for - you load the one file and it takes care of any others you need.

[noeldesigns]

Thanks for all your help. Grant