Open Source Email Software Required

eagleeyejoe

Hi,

I'm just enquiring if anyone knows of any Open Source software to generate automatic emails. I'll explain the scenario:

We have an MySQL database with registered user details including name, address, county, email address, etc. We also have a php contact form that the user completes and presses submit. When the user presses submit, we want all of the details in the contact form to be emailed to all of the emails in the database that meet the requirments of the user. When i say "meet the requirements" the user should be able to filter certain things in the contact form so that when the user presses submit then it won't go to every email in the database.

Again, i'm just wondering if anyone knows of any open source code/code that may assist us.

Thanks

croo

These sound like very specific requirements. I suspect you will need to develop something yourself - or get someone to do it for you. You don't provide much background (OS, programming languages, tools available) but maybe you could do something based on mysql (database) triggers - try googling for mysql, email and triggers to see if you find anything that might help.

Sposs

Are you looking for opensource mail software? if so http://www.sendmail.org/ and http://www.postfix.org/ would be the most widely used.

oMega_2093

Hello, do you mean you need a PHP script which sends email to required email addresses? If so you can probably code something by yourself, using the PHP mail function inside a looping. First get from the database the mail addresses which match your criteria and put them into an array. Then make a foreach loop with PHP mail function inside.

Is that what you need?

oMega_2093

I've read from the PHP.net docsite itself that PHP mail() is not recommended for large mail volumes, so you may consider how many mails are you going to send, and use pear modules to handle massive mailing lists if required.

Regards.