[thelist] php mailinglist newsletter smtp

[Dan Romanchik]

How about generating a mailig list from your database and then using a
service like SparkList? Or, if you don't want to pay anything, you could
even use Yahoo Groups.

I have a similar problem right now. I may be getting a contract to deliver
e-mail newsletters for a group of magazines. What I was thinking of doing
for this client is developing a set of scripts that would act as a front end
for SparkList (or some other such service). These scripts would allow
readers to subscribe and unsubscribe from the free newsletters as well as
provide an interface for the magazine's personnel to add and delete readers
from the paid newsletter mailing lists.

Dan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Maynes" <andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:47 AM
Subject: [thelist] php mailinglist newsletter smtp


> Hi Guys
>
> This one is something I will be working on for the next few weeks so all
the
> advice I can get will be absolutely brilliant and I promise to give a tip
:)
>
> I have a client who is on a hosting server that does not allow bulk mail!
What
> they mean by this I am not exactly sure.  I presume they mean I cant use a
> mailinglist script such as a php mailing program.
> The setup I have is this.  When a new customer places an order the
visitor's
> email is entered into a MySQL table, if they tick the box please subscribe
me.
>
> The php script then sends a newsletter out by accessing the MySQL DB.
>
> So the plan is to still run the subscribe into the DB.  But want I now
need to
> do is retrieve all the emails and send them from my local machine, hence
> avoiding sending bulk mail through the hostings compnies smtp!  Does this
make
> sense and if so any suggestions, apart from move hosting company!
Although as
> they have been so utterly useless in their support department this may
well be
> the way forward!
>
> Andrew
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