| Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage [message #185588 is a reply to message #185586] |
Thu, 17 April 2014 07:34   |
Arno Welzel
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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").
OR:
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.
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