Since version 4.5.4 all E-Mails are put to CC instead of BCC

Thanks Mike! You’re the best!

I have just experienced this with Version 4.5.5

I did email to group subscribers and it sent one email with everyone CC’s so they can all see who it went to – and like bellabellucci my site is adult in nature an I feel so embaraced for my customers and myself.

Happy to provide headers / screenshots as needed but I am scared to send out any more emails now – I use your plugin on about 15 sites!

For anyone having this problem, please send me email headers and/or screen shots so I can try and narrow this.

To make it easier to capture the problem, I have a new DEBUG version of Email Users on my web site. You can find it here.

1. This DEBUG build will never actually send an email UNLESS wp_mail() has been overloaded in which case there is no way for me to trap that. A red box is containing an “Aborted” message will be displayed when the sending process completes.
2. There are checks to see if wp_mail() has been overloaded and visiting the Email Users settings page (Dashboard->Settings->Email Users). A warning will appear at the top of the page if wp_mail() appears to overloaded.
3. There is new debug information captured as part of the sending process. It is captured and displayed in Post Boxes at the top of the page after sending an email.

There are a bunch of screen shots in a gallery on this page to help understand this new functionality. What I am looking for is addresses in the CC header being send to wp_mail() and/or in the PHPMailer object.

I have just released a new beta version which, to the best of my knowledge, resolves this issue.

Thanks to the help of a few people in the Email Users community. I would not have been able to resolve this problem with out their help.

If you want to check out the new build, please turn on Debug mode (see the article) as it will prevent email from being sent while you verify things appear operating normally.

Mike

I will wait for others to test, I can’t risk sending again a mass mail like before with all the cc visible.

Have anyone tested ?

We have the same issue with Version 4.5.5. Just sent email to all users yesterday and realized they all got each other email addresses in CC. Not good ??

Did anybody tested new beta version?

Besides myself, I have had three people do pretty extensive testing with the beta version. I am pretty confident the problem is fixed. The beta version also had a debug mode which I would recommend you try as it will allow you see the addresses in the BCC headers without actually sending any email.

I’ve been helping Mike with this and although it caused embarrassment I can say he has been extremely quick to respond and that, on my sites at least, the beta does solve the issue.

Thanks to Mike for giving up his time to work on this so quickly and for a very useful plugin.

Marking this resolved with the release of 4.6.0.

Has anyone tested and confirm its safe to send mails ?

I did quite a bit of testing with about 5-6 different users who had all reported the same issue and all reported it working correctly. There is also a new “debug” switch which will allow you to see the headers Email Users constructs without actually sending the email.

When in “debug” mode, email is never actually sent. You could use this as well to verify your recipient list. It does require looking at some raw header data but for the most part, it is pretty easy to understand.