Mailing Lists

[dgessler]

This is what I want to do: Make people add their email to a mailing list, and I can sent emails or whatever to the list so every subscriber gets the email. Would the control panel make this possible? Or should I look for a perl script that does this? I looked in the mailing list part of the control panel, and I was confused. Will the mailing list in the control panel do what I want it to do? I got the impression it was a thing where subscribers can send out messages so all subscribers can get emails, and thats really not what I want to do. Help Appreciated, thanks

[tyler]

Go to the "How To" section and read the second message. There is a link to a step-by-step FAQ on how to setup a mailing list, and what each type of list can be used for. That should help answer most of your questions.

I'm assuming you want an announcement list, one where you are the only person who can post messages. You can do that, simply by clicking a few settings. The FAQ will explain how.

[petesmc]

I was put off by the mailing list, but heres a quicky question.

Can you make it so that users only have to enter their email address to start getting the newsletter?

If so how?

[JordanTLClive]

Since the list supports subscription by email request, you may consider doing the following:
Setup a form on your site that uses formmail to send an email to listname-subscribe@yourdomain.tld. Set the following fields as indicated:
name=recipient type=hidden value=listname-subscribe@yourdomain.tld
name=email type=text

You can of course use other fields to further customize it but this should work. Let me know how it goes.