sending e-mail w/o displaying all addys & creating an input box for e-mail newsletter

[jsanchez]

hey kids,

i had 2 quick questions. i want to creat an input box on a webpage so that people can submit their e-mail address for a newsletter i want to create. how do i go about doing this? with forms? something to do with "post"? where would it send the addresses?

second, when sending e-mail, i want to send to a whole bunch of people at once, but i don't want the all the addresses to display in the TO field of the e-mail. i want something simple like "newsletter subscribers". how do i go about doing this?

thanks in advance guys...

[aym]

the first one needs more explanation, what languages are you using? you need to use a server-side programming language (like PHP or ASP) to achieve this.
the second question is an easy one, when you compose the message, instead of using the "to:" field to enter addresses, use the "BCC:" field, it stands for blind carbonic copy.
HTH

[DrZaius]

If you just want the email address sent to you, you can use simple HTML forms. Check out this tutorial to get started.

[blockcipher]

Or you can use a free service like this one >> http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/ I used for a little bit and was pretty nice

Hope this helps

[Statica]

Check with your hosting provider to see if they have mailing lists provided with your account. An easy way, instead of reinventing the wheel is to take a look at one of these:
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...ers/index.html (of course this is in PHP, there are tons of others that you could search as well).

[jsanchez]

guys....can u got to http://www.tamiu.edu/success and check out the popup box. once u input your e-mail, how can we get it? using asp or cgi? what is ur recommendation? i tried to post, get methods...but a small popup box pops up and says "u r sending ur info over the internet, it is not encrpyted blah blah blah"....what is the proper way to get e-mail addys from the text box?

we checked out this site http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...w=programming, but are still totally clueless...

thanks a bunch...

[mairving]

The best mailing list manager that I have ever used bar none is Mojo . You can send out emails in text or html format or both. Subscribing and unsubscribing is a simple click. It would be a cgi script.