Comments on: Can I make a email list form where the input data automatically gets added to the outgoing email list? http://twistyourlist.com/email-list-mailing/can-i-make-a-email-list-form-where-the-input-data-automatically-gets-added-to-the-outgoing-email-list Turn Your List Into A Cash Flow Jack Hammer Tue, 22 May 2012 06:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: injanier http://twistyourlist.com/email-list-mailing/can-i-make-a-email-list-form-where-the-input-data-automatically-gets-added-to-the-outgoing-email-list#comment-4274 injanier Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:59:59 +0000 http://twistyourlist.com/email-list-mailing/can-i-make-a-email-list-form-where-the-input-data-automatically-gets-added-to-the-outgoing-email-list#comment-4274 This is pretty simplistic, but it's worked fine for mailing lists of a thousand names or so. I have a form that collects the visitor's name and email address, and calls a simple Perl script (formmail is Perl, isn't it?). I keep the email list as a DBM file, keyed by email address, and add the visitor thusly: dbmopen(%MAILLIST, "$maillist", 0644) or die "cant open mail list: $!"; $MAILLIST{$formdata{'email'}} = $formdata{'name'}; dbmclose %MAILLIST; I also send the visitor a confirming email with an opt-out link in the form ..remove.cgi?email=you@yours.net<br><b>References : </b><br> This is pretty simplistic, but it’s worked fine for mailing lists of a thousand names or so. I have a form that collects the visitor’s name and email address, and calls a simple Perl script (formmail is Perl, isn’t it?). I keep the email list as a DBM file, keyed by email address, and add the visitor thusly:
dbmopen(%MAILLIST, "$maillist", 0644) or die "cant open mail list: $!";
$MAILLIST{$formdata{’email’}} = $formdata{’name’};
dbmclose %MAILLIST;

I also send the visitor a confirming email with an opt-out link in the form ..remove.cgi?email=you@yours.net
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