Need help with storing email addresses and sending out a newsletter

[Ted]

Hi...

I'm setting up a website that will send out a newsletter to my website
subscribers.

What are my options for collecting/storing the email addreses and what
are my options for sending out a newsletter?

A few years ago I used what I think was called a LIST-SERV - not
sure...would that work and/or is there something better.

Any tutorials out there?

Thanks.

[Adrienne]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out a newsletter

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ted" <occasionaluse@ hotmail.com>
writing in news:1119236912 .199870.246300@ z14g2000cwz.goo glegroups.com:
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> Hi...
>
> I'm setting up a website that will send out a newsletter to my website
> subscribers.
>
> What are my options for collecting/storing the email addreses and what
> are my options for sending out a newsletter?
>
> A few years ago I used what I think was called a LIST-SERV - not
> sure...would that work and/or is there something better.
>
> Any tutorials out there?
>
> Thanks.
>
>[/color]

Depending on what you have available, the only thing I would worry about is
someone trying to break in and grab all those addresses, so if possible,
keep them on another server.

--
Adrienne Boswell

http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info

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[Sherm Pendley]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out anewsletter

"Ted" <occasionaluse@ hotmail.com> writes:
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> I'm setting up a website that will send out a newsletter to my website
> subscribers.
>
> What are my options for collecting/storing the email addreses and what
> are my options for sending out a newsletter?[/color]

You have quite a few options. None of them are written in HTML, however,
so you might try posting your question in a more appropriate group. Not
only is it more polite, you'll get better answers.

sherm--

[blaircraig@gmail.com]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out a newsletter

I am looking at doing the same thing. I will be looking at redirecting
my email to extract the email address from the message and store it in
either an MSSQL database or a file. I will do this probably with PHP. I
will then probably write a script that executes every 15 minutes or so
does a search of the Database as to who is new and those that have not
recieved an email and get i to send one out.
Well that is what I am thinking at the moment. Things have been known
to change.....

Craig Blair

[Sherm Pendley]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out anewsletter

blaircraig@gmai l.com writes:
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> I am looking at doing the same thing.[/color]

The same thing as what? Please quote enough of the message you're replying
to, to give your own message some context.

sherm--

[Ted]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out a newsletter

Adrienne thanks for the advice...

It's not something that I was even thinking about...

Do you have an online resource or book that you can suggest on how to
do that?

Thanks...

[Adrienne]

Re: Need help with storing email addresses and sending out a newsletter

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ted" <occasionaluse@ hotmail.com>
writing in news:1119333033 .881648.100340@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com:
[color=blue]
> Adrienne thanks for the advice...
>
> It's not something that I was even thinking about...
>
> Do you have an online resource or book that you can suggest on how to
> do that?
>
> Thanks...
>[/color]

No, not right now, as it's something I'm going to have to worry about
myself very soon. If I find anything interesting, I'll post it. One thing
you might want to Google for, however, is SQL Injection. There are tips to
prevent it.

--
Adrienne Boswell

http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info

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