[thelist] email list integration with mysql

[ontheroad at frii.com]

That's how it should work.  In my PHP script, using mail() works to send 
email to me, to send a thank you to the user, etc, but sending to the 
subscribe email alias goes to lala-land. 

I set up a test list called test at louisvillebusinessleads.org.  Using 
thunderbird or outlook, if I send an email to that list, it works.  It 
generates a request to the moderator, the confirmation, etc works 
flawlessly.

Using my php script, the following works perfectly to send a thank you 
to the user for filling out the form:

$to = "ontheroad at frii.com";
$subject = "whatever";
$body = "more of whatever...";
$headers = "From: bobmeetin at frii.com";

mail ($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

If I change the $to to test-subscribe at louisvillebusinessleads.org, no 
email is generated.  All I can figure is that the mail server is seeing 
or not seeing something in the header, perhaps interpreting it as spam, 
don't know.  I check php.net and found an example with additional 
headers as http://us3.php.net/function.mail.  Adding the Reply to stuff 
makes no difference.

This is a shared hosting server and of course I have no access to do any 
troubleshooting of the mail server.  If I knew what to add in the mail() 
to the header, then the problem would be solved.  BTW - I'm not familiar 
with what you are saying regarding the 'subscribe' command. 

Any ideas? 

Thx, Bob

Hershel Robinson wrote:

>>Piece #2:  The hosting service uses ezmlm mailing list program.  
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>>What I would like to do is automate the process so that the user can 
>>both register as a user on the website as well as automatically be 
>>joined into an email list in a single process. 
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>Not quite following you. If you have ezmlm, then when they sign up as a 
>user, just send an email to the subscribe address. You could either send 
>it FROM their address and subscribe or, even better, send it as the 
>admin using the subscribe command to subscribe an email to the list.
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