Hello,

I would like to know if I can import my current mailing list, so I can use the send newsletter feature included with links2. If I can do this, what files I need to modify.

Thanks in advance



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What layout does your existing mailing list records take? (e.g. name|||email|||something)

Andy

Hello and thank you for trying to help,

I use Aureate Group Mail and when I went to open the file to see the text format it is not compatible with notepad or wordpad. So I can't tell. Is there a way I can convert their file to text file or delimited format in anyway?
The file extension is .gdb, any ideas?

Thanks

BizMomEdna

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Ok, I just went to Aureate Group Mail and exported the list to a .txt file and the email addresses are shown one after the other like this:

username@domain.com
username2@domain2.com
and so on....

I hope this helps.

Thanks
BizMom Edna

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Not sure, sorry...

What you would have to do is add PIPE characters | before the email address. Then you can copy the records into your EXISTING email.db file.

The file should look like:



The pipe character will separate the Name field and the Email address. Keep in mind though that it will be virtually impossible to associate "Names" with the NAME field.

What you could do is modify the modify.cgi to have people edit their record in the email.db file.

Good luck!

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thanks,

I went ahead and copied a .txt file with my own email addresses to test it and it sent the newsletter fine.

I got the newsletter but when I tried to unsubscribe, of course it says the email address is not on the mailing list, because it wasn't entered via the webpage. So, therefore I will have to advice them to unsubscribe to another email address I have available for that purpose.

The whole purpose of me doing this is to have the links automatically added to the newsletter and to have the unsubscription requests removed automatically. Well at least the new subscribers won't have this problem.

If there's another way I can do this, please advice.

Thanks again,

BizMomEdna



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What you would have to do is use a "generic" NAME for the NAME field and then have people use that that field to unsubscribe from your mailing list. They simply would input that NAME and unique email address from your other mailing list database file and then they can unsubscribe.

Again adding the editing option for the email.db would allow them to also edit the generic NAME that you put in the first column of records in the email.db.

Got it?

Regards,

Eliot Lee