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how to create mailing list

Jun 10th, 2005

How can a band create a mialing list to send out show responses
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Re: how to create mailing list

Jun 13th, 2005

you need to create a table, ie this would be an example:

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CREATE TABLE email_list (
     email    VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL,
     name     VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY(email)
);
CREATE TABLE email_list (
     email    VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL,
     name     VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY(email)
);

then just loop through it in whatever language you are usign and email it off to:
name <email>

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Re: how to create mailing list

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Originally Posted by bucwyld

How can a band create a mailing list to send out show responses

I'm actually not an expert on maillists, but there are specialized apps designed just for this purpose. Some mail servers have built in support of maillists. For example, I use Xmail on my Linux web server. Xmail has a maillist feature, although I've not used it yet.

As paradox814 suggested, you can "roll your own" using a database or even a simple text file. Whether to use a database or a text file depends on 2 factors really.

How many people do you expect to have on your list? If less than 5,000 or so, a text file should work fine.
Do you already have access to a database? If not, figuring out how to get one setup and how to work with it can be daunting to a newbie to say the least. So if you don't already have a database, then a text file looks attractive.

If you will have 10's of thousands of subscribers or you know how to work with a database, the database is a better way to go.

So being able to manage the data is one thing. Another important part of many maillists is the ability to subscribe or remove yourself. You probably want that, too. So whether you end up using a db or a text file, you'd want to develop a web page front end that allows people to add or remove themselves from the maillist.

Sending a mass mail is then just a case of writing a program to loop through the addresses sending your email to each one. This gives you an overview of your options. Once you decide to code something, I'm sure you'll have plenty more questions!

Enjoy the journey!

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Re: how to create mailing list

Jun 21st, 2005

bucwyld, came across this yesterday. This guy seems to have some nice, robust code. He has a PHP mailling list solution. Check it out.
http://www.bitfolge.de/morephp-en.html

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Feb 24th, 2007

Hi Troy,

Thanks for this script, i tried it, but i think it failed.

i applied every thing on it and this was the result

http://www.zmsh.org/list.php

if their is some thing i have to do, please tell me with it

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