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Custom Mailing Lists
I've been trying to work out the ability in LinksSQL to make custom mailing lists. I recently changed over servers and was using Smartlist (which was very good). I don't have a mail server and currently have several thousand subscribers subscribed to my monthly ezine.

I was looking at a number of different options:-

(a) Using a mailing list manager outside of Links (there are a number of them - the best seem to be PHP based)

(b) Using the Custom Mailing List feature in Links.

If I were to setup a custom mailing list in Links, how do people subscribe/unsubscribe from that list? This is the one thing I can't seem to work out at the moment. I do not want to go ahead and create a list and then find out I can't do anything with it!

I can't seem to find much documentation/information searching the forums on the question of 'custom lists', although there is plenty on the newsletter.

Thanks,


Clint.

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You would use the subscribe.cgi or use user.cgi to create users in the Users table.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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Okay ....

So does that mean ... when someone 'subscribes' (using subscribe.cgi) that they are subscribed to both 'newsletter' and to custom mailing list 'abc' or if a used a form and inserted the value 'abc' then the user would only be subscribed to custom list 'abc'?

Thanks,

Clint.

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You would have to add another COLUMN in the Users table to specify the "mailing list"...and also you would have to add another COLUMN called Subscribe (binary, ENUM Yes/No)...

Regards,

Eliot Lee