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hansteam
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Send email to entire contact list

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I have a client who wants me to set up a script which would allow users to email a message to their entire Hotmail and AOL contact lists via a form on his site. I've seen this done but I don't know how to do it, any ideas?
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anjanesh
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Post by anjanesh »

Search for an API, SOAP protocol, XML etc that can connect to other email service providers.

I dont know abt this - but is there a way to get address book through some protocol just like the way we use mails through POP, SMTP and IMAP ?
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Post by timvw »

Usually this info is stored in an LDAP tree which you can search... But it's certainly not an "address book" protocol..

If you have a MSN class / function, like fe: http://flumpcakes.co.uk/php/msn-messenger (untested) that can login (you will also recieve the contact list) and from there it's a breeze to iterate over the list ;)
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