The only way I've ever done it was on a Unix box: - filter the email - if it's a certain address, subject, or whatever, pipe it to a php script (command line executable, rather than http) - use this PHP script to manipulate the headers and body of the email, and re-send it to the subscribers, or act on commands like subscribe, unsubscribe, etc.
it's pretty complex stuff (or at the very least, a lot of work!!), and obviously will require some non-typical allowances on the server, like the ability to access scripts from the command line, email filtering, and possibly even some special allowances on the server for bulk mail sending (ie, some shared hosts restrict to batches of 100, etc). if you're on a shared host, I doubt you'll be able to do this, but they may be interested in installing a simular application onto the server for you (and others to use)... there are heaps of them out there (ezmlm the obvious one), and they might even have such a beast already installed. Good luck! Justin French on 12/07/02 3:33 PM, César Aracena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > I know for sure that this question has been asked and answered before, > but I haven’t read anything about it in the 6918 mails I got from this > list yet (or missed it ;). I have been wondering for a couple of days > now on how to make a mailing list (like this list) with PHP. Before > writing this, I went to hotscripts and evilwalrus but didn’t find > anything. I think it should be easy for me if I could gain physical > access to my server, but that’s not the case. I don’t wanna use other > language because I am trying to get around PHP at it most so any idea > very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Cesar Aracena <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CE / MCSE+I > Neuquen, Argentina > +54.299.6356688 > +54.299.4466621 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
