Programming my own mailing lists

[austin316]

are there any books / online sites to show me how to create a mailing list online program, similar to say Mailman (which I think is the PHP script that most sites come with for Cpanel)?

 

[clamum]

Are you familiar with PHP (or other scripting language) already?

Depending on how many features you need, it would be fairly easy to create a simple one. Here's a tutorial using PHP with MySQL to store the email addresses. If you don't have access to a MySQL database, you can store the address in a simple text file. This tutorial shows part of the text file route.

 

[austin316]

Originally posted by: clamum
Are you familiar with PHP (or other scripting language) already?

Depending on how many features you need, it would be fairly easy to create a simple one. Here's a tutorial using PHP with MySQL to store the email addresses. If you don't have access to a MySQL database, you can store the address in a simple text file. This tutorial shows part of the text file route.

Not that great with PHP (I did a lot of .Net though in college).

The ultimate goal would be create a mailing list type website where friends could go online to setup and then manage their own e-mail list.

It could be as simple as selecting a name which would become their e-mail list at a subdomain, IE, they select basketball, so their mailing list becomes basketball@basketball.webaddress.com or basketball@webadress.com and then they can manage that list and add or delete members. That is really all the functionality I need to start off with.

 

[austin316]

clamum, should have looked at your link a little more closely. that may work for my needs, but after doing a little more research, I think what I would like is a discussion list.

 

[Decoy84]

So a discussion list and the option for members to create their own email accounts under your domain is what your looking for? Seems like two fairly general and easily locatable scripts you'd need here so i bet you could just pull them for free from a scripts site. Just get a lil specific on your purpose and goals of this and I'll see what I can help hook up.

 

[austin316]

Originally posted by: Decoy84
So a discussion list and the option for members to create their own email accounts under your domain is what your looking for? Seems like two fairly general and easily locatable scripts you'd need here so i bet you could just pull them for free from a scripts site. Just get a lil specific on your purpose and goals of this and I'll see what I can help hook up.

awesome. thanks. and here goes.

I have my own domain and webspace and using the built-in scripts/cpanel, I have found that the mailman discussion lists have been very useful for my friends and I.

What I would like to learn how to do:

Using a domain and hosting (I know .Net fairly well, but obviously PHP is much more wallet friendly) I would like to have a basic website where my friends can come and create discussion lists. I would like to have admin control, but not where I a have to manually create the discussion lists or anything, but maybe just approve them.

I would like to talk to say my sister and have her go to the website and allow her to easily be able to create a discussion list and add and delete members to the group. Further, it would help if people add themseleves to a list and just get the list owners approval (IE in my sister's case). Once the list is created, any member can post to the list by simply sending an e-mail to listname@webspace.com

does this make sense? again, thanks for all the help. you guys are great.