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How to create a mailing list in php?

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:03 am
by latslats
hi all,
i wanted to create a mailing list ............so i searched for php based tools (open source) and found some like PHPBB and PHP List. But the thing is that all these are kind of newsletter subscription software. Every month or so newsletter will be sent to all the subscribed users. But what exactly i was expecting was that when a user subscribes to particular mailing list , she/ he can post the reply through that interface or she/he can directly reply to that mail from her inbox like we normally do in any mailing list. How can we map the replies coming from different users onto this kind of interface.
what actually i mean to say is when a user subscribes to a mailing list she gives her mail id also. After subscription she will receive all the mails (in the form of queries and their replies) in her inbox. But how can she reply to any of those mails without going to that interface i. e directly by mail.
I hope i m making myself clear :? .
Any help is most welcome

Thanks and Regards
Lattu

Re: How to create a mailing list in php?

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:12 pm
by alex.barylski
Sounds like what you need is an actual mailing list manager not so much a newsletter management application, which is what phpList and other PHP applications usually are.

MajorDomo
Mailman

Google those two...probably meet your needs a little better.

Re: How to create a mailing list in php?

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:12 am
by latslats
Thanks a lot. Atleast i got some starting point. the tools i was exploring were not the one i wanted. By referring to the tools u hv mentioned i hv found one more tool called PunBB. I have tested it and seems to be good. Moreover its written in php and tht too its open source.

Thanks again
Latslats