| Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage [message #185590 is a reply to message #185589] |
Thu, 17 April 2014 12:56   |
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On 17/04/14 11:49, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:34:07 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:
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>> Graham Hobbs, 2014-04-17 05:26:
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>>> 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 :(
>
If the security of the site IS in fact assured you can use PHP to output
a mailto: URL that can contain dozens of mail addresses.
In this case the web server IS the address book.,
A link that says
<a HREF="mailto:To@domain?bcc=recipent@domain,reciepen@domain">Click
here to send mail</a>
is the sort of thing..
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