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is it possible to set mboard 1.3 to send notification of new messages to multiple email addresses instead of just to the administrator?

Thank you in advance

I think an answer to this question has already been posted...

Anyway, in settings file just add more e-mails separated with a comma (,) to $settings['admin_email'].

For example:

Thank you for the quick answer.

Is there a maximum number of addresses the script can send the notification to?

I need to send the notice to 22 member addresses.
I know a program like Outlook express limit us to 25 addresses at a time, but have no idea how the PHP server handles it.

Thank you

Why don't you try it and see

I found a pretty good answer to my own question and will share it to benefit the community.

If you send email using PHP there are a few settings the PHP server administrator can set including but not limited to:
- you can only send to 3 different email addresses at a time with a script.
- there is a hourly limit to the amount of emails that may be sent
- there is a daily limit to the amount of emails that a script may send.
the default setting seems to be 250 emails per day.
- if the emails is not sent due to limits reached, a mail delivery log is created but usually you will not have access to this log unless you own the server. thus you will never know that the mail is not sent.

to make it a bit more complex it tests the from field and may use different values if the from field is the correct domain name.

To summarize using PHP scripts to send to multiple email addresses seems to be very unreliable
try to find a different solution.

Hope this helps somebody with the same issues.

Actually that depends on server settings, PHP is capable of sending thousands of mails per minute - IF the server permits so...