Multiple recipient email delivery best practices?

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In my app, I've got products that a user can subscribe to emails updates...when somebody updates the product's attributes, they get an email.

My question is how do I deliver that email so that all the user's email addresses are NOT in the "TO:" line, only the individual's email address? I'm currently sending my mailer an array of email addresses. Is that bad form? Should I instead loop over each user subscribed to email alerts and call my mailer once for each user? That seems like bad practice...

Thanks for any advice.

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This is what Bcc: is for.. populating the envelope without the users knowing about each other.

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Ok so the 'recipients' field is not required then...I can simply swap 'recipient' for 'bcc'? That sounds easy enough...thanks.

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Ok so the 'recipients' field is not required then...I can simply swap 'recipient' for 'bcc'?

That's right

That sounds easy enough...thanks.

The advantage for your users is that their e-mail addresses are not disclosed.

The advantage for you is that it is only one e-mail, with a single message ID, out to your SMTP smarthost & perhaps beyond.

Regards

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Thanks the help!