[thelist] Unsubscribe procedure (not from this list!)

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Thu May 12 15:37:37 CDT 2005


Tim,

On 5/11/05, Tim Stickland <tstickland at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've created a simple PHP script that allows users to subscribe and
> unsubscribe from a mailing list using a web interface.
> 
> This is all good, but I've been wondering today how would I go about
> implementing the functionality to allow a user to be
> subscribed/unsubscribed from a mailing list using either the subject
> or body of an email address?
> 
> I've used PHP's imap functions to read in messages from a particular
> mailbox before, but implementing this as a solution would mean having
> a cron job set up to periodically check the mailbox.
> 
> Are there other ways of acheiving the same goal?

You can forward mail to a PHP script (just as if you were forwarding
it to another email address) using a number of methods. The best
article I've come across about this is van Tulder's article:
http://gvtulder.f2o.org/articles/incoming-mail/

-- 
Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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