RE: [PHP-DB] Autonomous Mass Mail List System (Broadcast Email)

Don't reinvent the wheel. It will take you longer to write it than it will to learn to admin majordomo or any of 10 other programs like it. IMHO, Cal -----Original Message----- From: Jason Beebe [mailto:jbeebe@op480.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:49 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Autonomous Mass Mail List System (Broadcast Email) Hey Everyone, I'm working a project for one of the company's websites. they have a subscription mailing list that the user signs up their email address to receies periodical emailings. The email addresses are stored in a flat txt file. 1 email per line. I could also convert it to a coma delimited txt file if it would be easier. So, they've had problem with people who no longer want to receive emails, and one's that bounce for whatever reason, generally a bad email address. What I am trying to find out if who has some information to set up a system where we will send out our emails to the subscribers with our mailing list manager. when i customer respondes with a certain command in the body or subject (like unsubscribe) or if the mail bounces, I'd like it to search out the email address and delete it. Now, I know there's lists like majordomo that do something similar. But I'm looking for something a little more straightforward. I also know this may be more along the lines of shell scripting, but I thought some of you ingenious people may have already done something similar or have some ideas on where to start. thanks.