Compose multiple mails from single mailto option

Question

I am new to PHP, I want to send emails to multiple recipients but from same mail client using mailto option in php for example I have an array containing email addresses. I tried this:

$recipients = array(
  "youremailaddress@yourdomain.com", 
  "youremailaddress2@yourdomain.com",

);
$email_to = implode(',', $recipients);  
$body = "Body";

But this will add all recipients on same email. I need to create separate Draft for all receivers and I want only one receiver in one draft. I can't use BCC. Can anyone help me out for creating mails using:

 "<a href='mailto:".$email_to."?body=".$body."' target='_top'> </a>"

Possible duplicate of [Emailing to multiple recipients with html Mailto: not working](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9278363/emailing-to-multiple-recipients-with-html-mailto-not-working) — Sebastian Brosch, Jan 20 '16 at 07:33
The accepted answer there has given the answer for the first part of the question asked there but not the solution for composing different emails within same mail client. — Hunterr, Jan 20 '16 at 07:40
Actually... if you mean like creating lots of **different** `` tags one after the other, each one having a mailto recipient and all having the same body (or could be different too, depending on how you code it), you can use the function `foreach`, so you won't have to `implode` your array. I can show you how to do it but first let me know if that's what you need. — Zeke, Jan 20 '16 at 07:43
Well, I don't really have time now, but if that's it maybe someone else can put it up or I will in like... 8 hours or so. — Zeke, Jan 20 '16 at 07:45
I tried doing the same, I got an exception that I could only open one instance of Thunderbird on the second iteration. — Hunterr, Jan 20 '16 at 07:53
@zeke: I will be eagerly waiting for your response, if no one shows up. — Hunterr, Jan 20 '16 at 07:54

Zeke · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-20T18:23:26.187

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Well, supposing that what I commented was what you were looking for, I would do the following (you can edit it to just echo the whole thing):

$body = "Body";
$recipients = array(
    "youremailaddress@yourdomain.com", 
    "youremailaddress2@yourdomain.com",
);
foreach($recipients as $v){
    $a_tags .= '<a href="mailto:'.$v.'?body='.$body.'" target="_top"> </a>';
}

Note that I'm using .= so I can concatenate all the <a> tags, you can later output your $a_tags variable wherever you want.

edited Jan 20 '16 at 18:23

answered Jan 20 '16 at 08:02

Zeke

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If you get that exception again (which I don't see why you would get it), let me know and update your question with the report you got so I can check it out. Maybe this isn't the right approach for your project, but I don't know since I don't even know about it. – Zeke Jan 20 '16 at 08:05
Thanks for the solution, with slight changes on your answer it worked out. :) – Hunterr Jan 21 '16 at 07:06
Alright, feel free to edit my answer to show the real solution! I'm glad I could help! – Zeke Jan 21 '16 at 12:20

Compose multiple mails from single mailto option

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