PHPMailer not sending all emails to last email address - php

Question

I am using PHPMailer to send emails. I have created a function that sends 3 emails to 3 different email addresses (sending 9 emails in total).
The first email address is receiving all the 3 emails.
The second email address is receiving 2 emails.
The third email address is receiving only 1 email.
Why this happening?
Here is my code:
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'lib/phpmailer/vendor/autoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail1 = phpmaileremail($reciever1, $usertype1, $file, $subject1, $body1);
$mail2 = phpmaileremail($reciever2, $usertype2, $file, $subject2, $body2);
$mail3 = phpmaileremail($reciever3, $usertype3, $file, $subject3, $body3);
function phpmaileremail($reciever,$usertype, $file, $subject, $body)
{
global $mail;
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'xxx#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'xxx';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->setFrom('xxx', 'xxx');
$mail->addAddress($reciever);
$mail->addAddress($reciever, $usertype);
$mail->addAttachment($file);
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AltBody = 'NA';
$mail->send();
echo "Mail sent";
}

Answer 1

Because you're reusing the $mail object to addAddress() and send(). So the first time you call phpmaileremail() the first address gets the email. Then when you call it for the second time the second address is added and the first and second address get the email. And so on.
A simple solution would be to create the $mail object inside the phpmaileremail() function:
function phpmaileremail($reciever,$usertype, $file, $emailsubject, $email_body )
{
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com;';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'XXXXXXXX#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->setFrom('XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
$mail->addAddress($reciever);
$mail->addAddress($reciever, $usertype);
// Attachments
$mail->addAttachment($file); // Add attachments
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $emailsubject;
$mail->Body = $email_body;
$mail->AltBody = 'NA';
$mail->send();
echo "Mail sent";
}
PS: Not that it matters, but reciever is written receiver. I've made that mistake as well.

Answer 2

Kiko's answer will work, however it's not the best way. As its name suggests, addAddress adds an address, it doesn't set absolutely or replace existing recipients you've already added.
PHPMailer has a standard function to clear the list of addresses you're ending to called clearAddresses, so the right approach is to call that after each message you send and add the new address before sending the next one, so the sequence will be roughly:
addAddress();
send();
clearAddresses();
addAddress();
send();
and so on. This is most clearly demonstrated in the mailing list example provided with PHPMailer, which does its sending in a loop, calling clearAddresses each time around.
You can achieve the same thing using a new instance of PHPMailer each time (which has the effect of clearing addresses, but also clears everything else too), but it's more efficient to re-use the instance. This is especially true if you're sending over SMTP (which you are) because it will allow you to make use of keepalive, which dramatically reduces the overhead of making an SMTP connection. If you use a new instance, the connection is dropped and recreated each time. You can achieve this inside your function by making the PHPMailer instance static:
function phpmaileremail($reciever, $usertype, $file, $emailsubject, $email_body)
{
static $mail;
if ($mail === null) {
//Set everything that remains the same all the time in here
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com;';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'XXXXXXXX#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->setFrom('XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
}
$mail->addAddress($reciever, $usertype);
// Attachments
$mail->addAttachment($file); // Add attachments
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $emailsubject;
$mail->Body = $email_body;
$mail->AltBody = 'NA';
$mail->send();
$mail->clearAddresses();
$mail->clearAttachments();
echo "Mail sent";
}
This has the added benefit of not using a global. Also note the use of clearAttachments, as that works the same way as addresses.