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Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:34:07 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:

> 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@lists.domain.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 :(

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-16 23:26 -0400
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-16 23:42 -0400
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-04-17 09:34 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-17 10:49 +0000
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-17 13:56 +0100
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-17 11:15 -0400
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-17 22:00 +0200
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-17 16:49 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-04-18 08:10 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-18 21:52 -0400
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2014-04-19 11:26 -0700
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-04-19 15:15 -0400
          Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-21 21:29 +0200
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-19 20:58 +0000
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-19 20:58 +0000
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-19 21:26 -0400
          Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-19 21:38 -0400

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