Re: writing a newsletter program in php?

Yes, this is a reasonable candidate for a PHP project, however: 1. why reinvent the wheel? 2. There are some serious issues with using PHP's mail() command: a) large mailing lists will time out on individual emails b) the alternative to a is to use Bcc. Your ISP will probably set the maximum to 100 emails in a Bcc, which throws that idea out the window c) the alternative to a and b seems to be injecting emails directly into the mail que with sendmail, and all sorts of stuff I haven't looked into yet. There is a class (not not a tutorial, a class in OOP way) on phpclasses.org which offers (what seems to be) every answer to the above issues, but I've never used it, and it's OOP nature may be a complex way to get into PHP. There are literally 100's of threads about mailing lists in the archives. Justin on 23/01/03 9:15 AM, Mark C (gen-lists@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to php (ok new, try 3 days ;), althought, I'm finding it fun, I > 'm trying to think of a project to do, to get me more into it. > > And after having a discussion with a friend and also setting up several > Mailman mailing lists for people that want to compose HTML mails and > post them as newsletters, it got me thinking, would I be able to create > a similar program to mailman in php? > > So admins just login to the list. copy and past the html into a text box > and php then renders it for a preview, then if they like it, they click > send, this send queries the database and sends it to all the people list > to receive mail on that list. > > I would assume that the sending could be handed off somehow to > sendmail/postfix? > > The list front end would also hold list preferances as well, for > subscribers and admins, > basically I want to mimik Mailman, but in php and be able to render > previews of mails first, basically it will be a newsletter program, > rather than a mailing list one, which is where Mailman falls over. > > Cheers > > Mark >