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No idea. I looked at the monthly stats and found over 12,000 page hits for Jan 2 -- normal is around 800. Page requests showed things like: /sug.php?do=is 2010 a new decade /sug.php?do=bud light paintball and similar. And even though I removed the file, the requests keep coming. Doubtful that Dreamhost put it there.

The attached code is the result of translating a base64 file that was put on my website by persons unknown. It has lots of references to Google so it may have something to do with their robot. I'd be grateful if someone could tell me what it actually does. Thanks. [attachment deleted by admin]

Thanks.

[quote author=php_joe link=topic=112291.msg458906#msg458906 date=1162007625] [quote]Thanks but that would require my intervention for every email sent to the list's email address. [/quote] No, you could set it up so that it's automatic. Just like this forum that sends emails to members who have "subsrcribed" to a particular topic. Just give each member a "moderated" or "unmoderated" status and, if they're "unmoderated" have the code loop through a list of email addresses and [b]mail()[/b] each one. Joe [/quote] Way beyond my ability to code in PHP. Thanks.

[quote author=Netty link=topic=112291.msg458680#msg458680 date=1161972389] search http://php.resourceindex.com [/quote] Thanks. That was one of the first places I looked. The descriptions are generally inadequate and it looks like the only way to find out if a script is suitable is to download it! I was hoping that someone in this forum might have some experience with one or more of these existing script.

Thanks but that would require my intervention for every email sent to the list's email address. I'm looking for something that runs unattended. There are scripts on the script sites that let the list owner send a "newsletter" to a bunch of email addresses and I think that's what you've come up with. My requirements are a bit different. Actually, I think that there are scripts that already exist for this; I just cannot find them!

[quote author=php_joe link=topic=112291.msg458053#msg458053 date=1161880319] So, basically you want to copy Yahoo Groups, right?[/quote] No, i don't. [quote]Use the code above, and modify it thusly: [code]<?php $file = file_get_contents("filename.txt"); if(!eregi($youremail, $file)) die(); $to1 = explode("|", $file); foreach($to1 as $key => $value){ $to = $value; $subject= yoursubject; $msg = yourmessage; $headers='From: '.$youremail."\r\n".'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n".'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n"; mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers); } ?>[/code] Let me know if it works :) Joe [/quote] I have some questions about your script. The first is how do I get an email addressed to some user on the server where the script resides to trigger the script? Thanks.

I'm sorry for not being more clear. The script resides on a server and runs unattended. When an email to the mailing list address arrives, the script picks it up, checks that the sender is a list member and then resends the body of the message. For a better explanation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list Thanks.

Thank you but that's not it. A mailing list is one that has a central email address to which members send messages, which are then distributed to all members. Like Listserv, Mailman, etc.

Hi. Sorry of this is not the right place to post this. I'm looking for a script for a mailing list (i.e., "discussion", not "newsletter") that can be installed and run without the need for superuser privileges. Any suggestions? I've done a fair amount of looking and cannot tell without downloading and extracting the INSTALL file whether or not root access is required. Thanks.