Mailing lists

[Blisk]

I am looking for a php software for mailing list. There is some of the free and some commercial.
But I can't find news letter software which will send a differend group list an email every 3 months, another group list every 6 months, etc. The same email to differend group list and differend time. All automatically, so when I add a new user to certain group ge will get an email when it is defined for that list group.

I hope someone know some php script for that...
Maybe with cron job....

[scathefire]

I usually use a BASH script to fire off something like that.

#!/bin/bash
EMAIL="group@mail.com"

  echo "To: $EMAIL"
  echo "Subject: `date +%D` Newsletter"
  echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
  echo 'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=boundary42'

  echo "--boundary42"
  echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1"
  echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
  echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
  echo ""
  echo "`php /path/to/generate-plaintext-version.php`"
  echo ""
  echo "--boundary42"
  echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
  echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
  echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
  echo ""
  echo "`php /path/to/generate-html-version.php`"
  echo ""
  echo "--boundary42--"
) | /usr/lib/sendmail $EMAIL

Those named PHP scripts generate the content. One is plaintext, the other is HTML. You can make one of these for each group. And make a cronjob.

* * * /3 * root /run/3/months/script
* * * /6 * root /run/6/months/script