| Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage [message #185594 is a reply to message #185592] |
Thu, 17 April 2014 20:00   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Graham Hobbs wrote:
> Denis McMahon wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:34:07 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> 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 :(
>
> 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?
Probably yes, see below.
> LDAP idea I need to learn more. CSV seems to be an answer, I think.
CSV import would mean that your local distribution list’s content (the
“subscribers” of your messages) is never up-to-date. That is why I said
that there is no *reasonable* solution to your problem, considering your
requirements, as LDAP did not occur to me.
As you can read above, LDAP holds the data server-side, too, so not on your
home machine (unless that is the machine the PHP program is running on and
people can access that machine from the outside¹).
As always, instead of asking for solutions to the problems with your
approach, present your initial problem and ask for approaches to solutions.
But probably in a more general newsgroup, unless you seek a PHP solution.
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
PointedEars
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