Automated email

[Benny123]

Hi,

 

I'm wondering how i'd go about making an automated emailing system on a website?

 

Example:

 

User enters email adress, the webstite sends the user an automated email

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

- Benny

[manikyath]

you cant really have a website mail someone.

 

you'd have to add the emails into a database, and have something else read the emails from that database and send said automated email.

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that said, why would you do this?

[Benny123]

you cant really have a website mail someone.

 

you'd have to add the emails into a database, and have something else read the emails from that database and send said automated email.

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that said, why would you do this?

Just for a little project I might persue

[Hans Christian | Teri]

you cant really have a website mail someone.

 

you'd have to add the emails into a database, and have something else read the emails from that database and send said automated email.

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that said, why would you do this?

 

Incorrect, there is plenty of back-end web programming ways to send emails.

[burnttoastnice]

Depending on your setup, any email you send will most likely just go into the destination user's spam inbox.

If you're sending emails from your own IP, make sure it isn't blacklisted with Spamhaus, or else it most likely won't reach Gmail or Yahoo inboxes at all. https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/ http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/

 

If you own the server, then most likely you can send email via a linked Gmail(or other webmail) account.

[colonel_mortis]

If you're using PHP on your server, you can use the mail function. The syntax is

mail ($to, $subject, $body, $headers)

where $to is a string of comma-separated to addresses in the format Name <address@theirdomain>, eg

$to = "The First User <firstuser@[member='Example'].com>, Another User <contact@[member='Example'].net>"

$subject should just be a single line string of your subject line.
$body is the body of your email. It's possible to send the email as html, or you can just use plain text. You have to use CRLF to separate the lines, which means that you should use double quotes around the string, and use \r\n to indicate a line break, eg

$body = "Dear Mr Example,\r\n" .        "This is an example email. Notice how I am adding \\r\\n at the end of every line\r\n" .        "End of message";

$headers should be a CRLF-delimited set of email headers, in the format Headername: content. You must include a From header, and there are loads of other ones that can be included. eg

$headers = "From: Benny123 <benny123@[member='Example'].com>\r\n" .           "CC: AnExampleUser <exampleuser@[member='Example'].net>\r\n" .           //If you want to send it as HTML instead of plain text           "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .           "Content-Type:  text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1";

The documentation for this function can be found here.

PS ignore the @ stuff, that's forum tagging, you can figure out how it should look like