Send mail with cc and bcc?

[THE_AI]

I see that the STS API doesn't support cc and bcc messages, but those
are actually supported by SES:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/APIReference/

My question here is - what should I do with bcc messages? If I add
the email address to the normal recipient list, then the recipient
will get the email, but he will also see all other people receiving
the same mail and I'll expose all users emails this way...

What should be my strategy here?

[jesse]

We purposely did not support those. If you are BCC'ing, our opinion is
that that is bulk and you should be using normal campaigns. CC'ing is
bad for the obvious reason you've stated.


jesse

[THE_AI]

I'm working on the joomla plugin that will send all joomla emails
trough the STS api.

There are some extensions (even in the core) that use the BCC option.
Now I'm just logging that an extension is using the bcc option and the
mail is not going to be sent, but this is stupid.

If you guys are not willing to implement those 2 functions, then I'll
have to send those mails trough PHPmailer :(

[Fabrizio Moscon]

Using bcc does NOT necessarily mean to spam users.
In my case I need to notify 100 user - let's say - of a wall activity
that they agreed to received by email but I don't want to use `to:` as
it will disclose their email to each other. And I don't want to send
individual email either because all the benefit of the Mailchimp's
queue buffer will be lost as I will send all the 100 messages in
series which approximately will take 0.6 seconds * 100 = 60 seconds.
This notification are not a campaign as they are generated on fly as
the events happened.

If Mailchimp doesn't allow using bcc: sooner I will be forced to call
Amazon SES directly as they volume of email will grow.

[jesse]

SendEmail now supports CC and BCC addresses and names just like
Amazon's SES does:

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/sts/1.0/sendemail.func.php


jesse