basic newsletter script to email clients

[windandwaves]

Hi Folk

I was wondering if you could recommend me any basic newsletter scripts that
combine a MySql Database with a mail function. I would like to send out a
newsletter for a client of mine.

It is important that it

a. allows HTML messaging (does anyone know a good place to find info in
this?)

b. does not require any server settings as I would like to do this from a
basic hosting plan

Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance (otherwise known as TIA)

- Nicolaas

[snorky]

Re: basic newsletter script to email clients


"windandwav es" <winandwaves@co ldmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any recommendations would be much appreciated.[/color]

Read http://www.php.net/mail and
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/select.html

Also, pay attention to a page timeout, as some ipp's do not allow sending
many emails in a short time period. I.e., my IPP allows 1000 emails per
hour, so keep that in mind.

Also, there are plenty of these at http://www.hotscripts.com/

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: basic newsletter script to email clients

Hello,

on 07/05/2005 08:11 PM windandwaves said the following:[color=blue]
> I was wondering if you could recommend me any basic newsletter scripts that
> combine a MySql Database with a mail function. I would like to send out a
> newsletter for a client of mine.
>
> It is important that it
>
> a. allows HTML messaging (does anyone know a good place to find info in
> this?)
>
> b. does not require any server settings as I would like to do this from a
> basic hosting plan[/color]

You may want to try to use this class as it supports proper HTML e-mail
composition, it can support composition of personalized (or not)
messages with Smarty templates, it can be optimized for bulk delivery
and it comes with several sub-classes that can deliver in different ways
that may fit better your hosting restrictions.

Take a look at the bulk mail examples:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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[windandwaves]

Re: basic newsletter script to email clients

Manuel Lemos wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> on 07/05/2005 08:11 PM windandwaves said the following:[color=green]
>> I was wondering if you could recommend me any basic newsletter
>> scripts that combine a MySql Database with a mail function. I would
>> like to send out a newsletter for a client of mine.
>>
>> It is important that it
>>
>> a. allows HTML messaging (does anyone know a good place to find info
>> in this?)
>>
>> b. does not require any server settings as I would like to do this
>> from a basic hosting plan[/color]
>
> You may want to try to use this class as it supports proper HTML
> e-mail composition, it can support composition of personalized (or
> not) messages with Smarty templates, it can be optimized for bulk
> delivery and it comes with several sub-classes that can deliver in
> different ways that may fit better your hosting restrictions.
>
> Take a look at the bulk mail examples:
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage[/color]

Thank you for that. I have embarked on my own development and I will try to
post a sample when I am finished.

Thank you again