I am looking for advice, example, instruction, anything that will help me create a web-based subscription form for a smartlist mailing list. I have been looking for hours, and thought that the members of this forum may be able to lend a hand. I am trying to free myself of free e-mail hosts (Topica), and use the smartlist installed on my web site. Any help or advice is appreciated. Kevin S. Peterson
The usual approach is to write a cgi that takes a submitted email address and creates a subscribe message which it sends to the list-request address. Quite simple to do if you have any chops at all in web based apps. You'll want to enable confirmation, to avoid the addition of bogus email addresses. On the other hand, pure email based subscription mechanisms such as the standard SmartList approach aren't that hard -- but I won't ask why you don't want to go that route. (Odds are someone else on this list will, however. ;) -ph On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Peterson, Kevin wrote:
Kevin -- Regarding the questions you sent to me off-list... The standard way to subscribe to a SL list is to send an email from the email account you wish subscribed, to the -request address of the list, with "subscribe" in the subject. For instance: if your list is called gorp, you might tell your clientele: Welcome to Gorp, blah blah blah... To join our email discussion list, send an email to gorp-request@example.com with the SUBJECT (not body) of your message reading "subscribe" (without the quotes.) Hmm... I'm sure this is all covered in the docs. have you been to http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/ ? -ph On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Peter Hartzler wrote:
I have a website which does the html form-based mailing-list subscription using jsp as the action target. Here is the snippet of th html form: ------------------------------------------------------ <html> <title> Bioweircom.org MailingList</title> <body> <br> <center> <form METHOT=post ACTION=http://www.bioweircom.org/java/jsp/Subscribe.jsp> Your Email Address: <input type=text name=email size=30 maxlength=40> <input type=submit name=action value=subscribe> <input type=submit name=action value=unsbscribe> </form> </center> </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------------ and the snippet of the Subscribe.jsp: ------------------------------------------------------ <%@ page import="java.io.*" %> <%@ page import="java.text.*" %> <%@ page import="java.util.*" %> <%@ page import="javax.mail.Message" %> <%@ page import="javax.mail.Session" %> <%@ page import="javax.mail.Transport" %> <%@ page import="javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress" %> <%@ page import="javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage" %> <%@ page import="javax.naming.Context" %> <%@ page import="javax.naming.InitialContext" %> <html> <head> <% String title="Subscribing to bio93@bioweircom.org"; %> <title> <%= title %> </title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center> <hr color=blue> <br> <% String email=request.getParameter("email"); String action=request.getParameter("action"); if(email==null||email.compareTo("")==0||email.indexOf('@') <= 0){ %> <font size=+1 color=red>Invalid email address. Click the "Back" button above to subscribe again.</font> <br><hr color=blue> </center> </body> </html> <% return; } %> <% try { // Acquire our JavaMail session object Context initCtx = new InitialContext(); Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env"); Session mailsession = (Session) envCtx.lookup("mail/Session"); // Prepare our mail message Message message = new MimeMessage(mailsession); message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(email)); InternetAddress dests[] = new InternetAddress[]{ new InternetAddress("bio93-request@bioweircom.org") }; message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, dests); message.setSubject(action); message.setContent("", "text/plain"); if(action.compareTo("subscribe")==0){ out.println("You have successfully "+action+"d to<font color=red><strong> bio93@biweircom.org</strong></font>. A confirmation email will be sent to you shortly.<br>"); }else{ out.println("You have successfully "+action+"d from<font color=red><strong> bio93@biweircom.org</strong></font>. A confirmation email will be sent to you shortly.<br>"); } } catch (Throwable t) { out.println("<font color=\"red\">"); out.println("ENCOUNTERED EXCEPTION: " + t); out.println("<pre>"); t.printStackTrace(); out.println("</pre>"); out.println("</font>"); } %> <br><hr color=blue><br> </center> </body> </html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Above jsp is run within Tomcat-4.0, which can be downloaded from www.apache.org. There is a send-mail sample code coming with the Tomcat download. Good luck, Chun-Nuan Peter Hartzler wrote:
Have a look at www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml I set up a fairly crude page using formmail to generate subscribe/unsubscribe requests. My long-term goal is a single page with radio buttons, but I'm not there yet. Irwin At 01:09 PM 11/26/2001 -0600, Peterson, Kevin wrote:
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