How to Not Make Phpmailer Send an Email With Multiple 'To' Addresses

How to not make PHPmailer send an email with multiple 'to' addresses?

Are you doing something like this?

$mailer = new PHPMailer();

while($row = fetch_from_db()) {
   $mailer->AddAddress($row['email']);
   $mailer->send();
}

If so, you need to do a

$mailer->ClearAllRecipients()

after you send each email, so you start out with a "fresh" To: list.

Sending emails to multiple addresses using config PHP file and PHP Mailer

Based on the examples from PHPMailer courtesy of the link shared by @Chris Haas. I made these changes:

<?php
$config = [
    "host" => "xxx",
    "username" => "xxx",
    "password" => "xxx",
    "secure" => "ssl", // ssl or tls
    "port" => 465,
    "sendTo" => "abc@email.com",
    "sendTo2" => "efg@email.com",
    "sendTo3" => "hik@email.com",
    "sendToBCC" => "xyz@email.com",
    "from" => "no-reply@email.com",
    "fromName" => "Contact Form"
];

And in the sending file I did this:

//Recipients
$mail->setFrom($config['from'], $config['fromName']);
$mail->addAddress($config['sendTo']);
$mail->addAddress($config['sendTo2']);
$mail->addAddress($config['sendTo3']);
$mail->addCC($config['sendToCC']);          
$mail->addBCC($config['sendToBCC']);
$mail->addAddress($_POST['email']);

That resolved the issue.

PHP mailer multiple address

You need to call the AddAddress method once for every recipient. Like so:

$mail->AddAddress('person1@domain.example', 'Person One');
$mail->AddAddress('person2@domain.example', 'Person Two');
// ..

Better yet, add them as Carbon Copy recipients.

$mail->AddCC('person1@domain.example', 'Person One');
$mail->AddCC('person2@domain.example', 'Person Two');
// ..

To make things easy, you should loop through an array to do this.

$recipients = array(
   'person1@domain.example' => 'Person One',
   'person2@domain.example' => 'Person Two',
   // ..
);
foreach($recipients as $email => $name)
{
   $mail->AddCC($email, $name);
}

PHPMailer - Sending multiple emails to addresses stored in the mySQL database

You can directly get address

$recipients = array();

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){   
     $mail->addRecipent($row['email'], $row['name']);
}

p.s. better use for

PHPMailer: Send emails to multiple recipients error

@Natrium nearly had it. You're not accessing your array elements correctly. Do it like this:

foreach ($emailto as $contacts) {
  $mail->addAddress($contacts['email']);
}

It's also a good idea to check return values, perhaps:

foreach ($emailto as $contacts) {
  if (!$mail->addAddress($contacts['email'])) {
    echo 'Address rejected: '.$contacts['email'];
  }
}

PHP Mailer Multiple recipients

You're code looks like it should be doing the trick. Make sure that $address doesn't contain any whitespace for the entries. For safe measure, add the trim()
function.

$mail->AddAddress(trim($address));

If that does not work, make sure that you're recipient addresses are real.

Additionally, in case the privacy of the recipients is of concern, I would recommend you use AddBCC() instead of AddAddress() so that their addresses are not revealed.

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