Completely Lost

[Dr Katz]

I'm trying to set up a mailing list registration on my friend's website, and I am completely confused by FormMail and CGI in general.

I don't know if the form mail script i found is appropriate, and I can't find a sendmail directory on my website's server, among other problems.

Please help.

[Tammy]

You can use a third-party mass-mailing program if you can't get anything else to work. I do, and it has worked more or less flawlessly for years - and it was/is free. The one I use is called mymail, it should be easy to find via a search.

Just giving you another option, I'm sure others will help you with the standard program.

[Viper007Bond]

HR has built in mailing lists. Just go into the e-mail manager, create a list, and then tell people to either send an e-mail to yourlistname-subscribe@yourdomain.com or set up a form to send an e-mail to that address while faking the return address to the user's entered e-mail address.

I used PHP myself to do it, but I guess you could use FormMail.

I am looking into using PHPlist though. It's an entirely PHP based mailing list system. It even has built in signup forms if you don't want to code ones yourself.

http://www.phplist.com/