| Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage [message #185592 is a reply to message #185589] |
Thu, 17 April 2014 15:15   |
Graham Hobbs
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:49:44 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon
<denismfmcmahon(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:34:07 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:
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>> Graham Hobbs, 2014-04-17 05:26:
>>
>>> I am at PHP 101 level. I have a webpage that asks a user to enter their
>>> name in one box, email address in another and click send. That's works
>>> OK (almost):-).
>>>
>>> I also have created an empty Mailing list 'List-B' in my Mozilla
>>> Thunderbird to which I want to automatically add the email addresses
>>> sent from the webpage.
>>
>> This is not possible, since Thunderbird is not running on the same
>> computer as your website.
>>
>> Two ideas:
>>
>> If you want to maintain mailing lists on the server you need software
>> like Mailman. This can be installed additionally to the webserver and
>> you can use the command line interface of mailman to add users to
>> existing mailing lists which will then accept mails using a "virtual"
>> e-mail address (e.g. "customers(at)lists(dot)domain(dot)example").
>
> Observation to the OP: If you do this, you will need to ensure that
> mailman only sends mail that is genuinely from you somehow, otherwise
> there is a risk, if the virtual email address is ver exposed, of spammers
> using your server to spam people on your mailing list.
>
>> Setup an LDAP server and use the LDAP directory as address book in
>> Thunderbird. From PHP you can then also add members to the LDAP
>> directory.
>
> Thunderbird can also import address book data from csv files, but it
> doesn't seem to have an easy way to take a group of existing email
> addresses and put them in a mailing list :(
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Denis (to you principally, many thanks all),
Msgs rcvd, some understood, some need my looking into but I have a
starting point. A must "I do want the list on my home machine" - that
ends Mailman, right? LDAP idea I need to learn more. CSV seems to be
an answer, I think.
For another system, I have a php pgm running at my ISP's server (the
design/build not altogether my doing (a lot to do with you lot
actually):-) that receives user pages, extracts user filled fields and
emails them to a Pegasus client running on my home machine. A REXX
polls the Pegasus directory 24/7 and deals with each email as it
arrives - no manual intervention whatsoever.
Sounds like I could do exactly the same. I once only create a csv
file, append thereto as emails come in, and at the end of a day
manually import into Thunderbird, empty the csv file ready for a new
set of email addresses - sounds like a goer .. except I don't fully
understand your comments about 'easy way to take a group' - I wouldn't
want to have a bunch of csv files each with one address and have to
manually load into the Mailing list.
Feasible, sensible, any comments welcome but sort of getting away from
php - so Jerry, I know the story! :-))
Graham
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