Re: Autonomous Mass Mail List System (Broadcast Email)

Sure - I did this with qmail. In your .qmail file or any file that passes the incoming mail to /dev/stdin you need to pipe it to a php script. It will look like this: <? $fp = fopen('/dev/stdin','r'); while(!feof($fp)) { $line = trim(fgets($fp,4096)); if(ereg("^From:",$line)) { // example of parsing out the From: header } } ?> I had email addresses setup like ezmlm - ie list-subscribe-joe=earth.care2.com@listserv.com or on the other hand list-unsubscribe-joe=eartha.care2.com@listserv.com - then just parse out the To: address and replace the = with a @ (dashes as well with something else) and remove the email. --Joe On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:49:16PM -0700, Jason Beebe wrote: > 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. -- Joe Stump, PHP Hacker joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org/