Mailing List, continued

by "Brandon Coughlin" <bcoughlin(at)urx.com>

 Date:  Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:40:28 -0800
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  mcgill mediaone CC2416831A gte
  todo: View Thread, Original
Okay, I have tried PHP List, and the others ideas I have been given but I
still cannot find anything for what I am trying to do.

It really is more simple than what it sounds.  It sounds more complicated
than it really is.  I just want to send the results of a form to a mailing
list.  And I need that mailing list to have some type of subscription
management utility.  Can any of you give me some pointers on what it is I am
looking for?  The reason I can't use most of the mailing list programs, is
because they don't allow me to use multiple fields - they restrict you to
only using a SUBJECT, MESSAGE field.

In my head, what I think I need to do is edit Formmail so that instead of
sending the results to one address, it reads a text file of email addresses
and sends to those addresses.  That mailist text file would be managed by
some type of mailist manager.  The mailist manager is the easy part.  I
don't have a clue of how I would edit Formmail to do it's part.  This is
what I am getting stuck on.

This form is going to have multiple authorized users, so I am going to be
setting up a registration script for that.  I can do that too!!  LOL

I know the ultimate solution would be to hire a CGI or PHP programmer to do
this and get it done for me, but I am doing this for a non-profit and I
don't want to incur anymore costs if at all humanly possible.

THANKS!
Brandon

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