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Hi,
I made a website recently for a client, and he would like to send out HTML newsletters. I'm currently working on the newsletter, but the big problem is how to store everyone who signs ups e-mail address. Is it possible to do this using Access? Do i need additional software? I want to be able to create the e-mail and then press a button and watch it go to everybody.
Thanx for ur help
Andi
I made a website recently for a client, and he would like to send out HTML newsletters. I'm currently working on the newsletter, but the big problem is how to store everyone who signs ups e-mail address. Is it possible to do this using Access? Do i need additional software? I want to be able to create the e-mail and then press a button and watch it go to everybody.
Thanx for ur help
Andi
I wanted to do this aswell.
www.Listbot.com used to offer this service for free, but like any Microsoft venture they end up charging ridiculous amounts for it. (Think they charge about £200 now)
There are some cgi scripts that store email addresses when the user submits it. Ill have a look for some later.
Dav1d
www.Listbot.com used to offer this service for free, but like any Microsoft venture they end up charging ridiculous amounts for it. (Think they charge about £200 now)
There are some cgi scripts that store email addresses when the user submits it. Ill have a look for some later.
Dav1d
PHP has an inbuilt function called mail
call it using mail("toaddress", "title", "message, "from address");
You could have a flat file, opne email on each line, load this into an array, send the email to each person in the array in turn.
You really should check with your ISP to see whether this type of use of their servers is acceptable.
But in priciple it is very easy.
Check your legal situation as well.
call it using mail("toaddress", "title", "message, "from address");
You could have a flat file, opne email on each line, load this into an array, send the email to each person in the array in turn.
You really should check with your ISP to see whether this type of use of their servers is acceptable.
But in priciple it is very easy.
Check your legal situation as well.
There are also a lot of free services for mailing lists on the net.
Bravenet have one that lets you do HTML mails. http://www.bravenet.com
Bravenet have one that lets you do HTML mails. http://www.bravenet.com
You need a MySQL database and a good knowledge of PHP. Sending HTML newsletters isn't the best idea, but it is possible to do it. The one problem you might have is stopping the script from timeouting. You might have to get it to send 400 then refresh itself.
It's fairly hard, but it's very possible. Contact me at [email protected] if you want more info. I could do it for you, but I'd have to charge. £5 sound OK?
It's fairly hard, but it's very possible. Contact me at [email protected] if you want more info. I could do it for you, but I'd have to charge. £5 sound OK?
Hi,
I made a website recently for a client, and he would like to send out HTML newsletters. I'm currently working on the newsletter, but the big problem is how to store everyone who signs ups e-mail address. Is it possible to do this using Access? Do i need additional software? I want to be able to create the e-mail and then press a button and watch it go to everybody.
Thanx for ur help
Andi
I made a website recently for a client, and he would like to send out HTML newsletters. I'm currently working on the newsletter, but the big problem is how to store everyone who signs ups e-mail address. Is it possible to do this using Access? Do i need additional software? I want to be able to create the e-mail and then press a button and watch it go to everybody.
Thanx for ur help
Andi