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This goes hand-in-hand with Speedsoft's virtual hosting option of having a mail list assigned to an email alias. See the Virtual Hosting Email page for instructions on setting this up. This is not intended to be a full-featured mailing list program. For that Speedsoft offers Majordomo, a mail list server program. This program, addlist.pl, allows you to have a web page where visitors can add their email address to your mail list. They cannot add their email address more than once. This package is an original Speedsoft creation.

Please read the help page about possible problems this could cause if your return address for your list is the same as the list name.

There are three files included in the Addlist package. Below is a brief summary of them:

addlist.txt - Info File.
addlist.pl - The Perl Script.
addlist.html - A sample HTML addlist form page. Feel free to edit this or cut and paste it to a different HTML page.

Auto Installation

Make sure you are on the same server as your web site:

User Info

Enter your username and password (same as your FTP and email)

Username:
Password:

Virtual Hosting Accounts

Virtual Hosting accounts, enter your domain name here in the form "yourdomain.com".
Domain Name:

Install Location

Enter the directories for installing the scripts and the html pages. Defaults are in your cgi-bin directory for the scripts and your home directory for the HTML pages. If you don't know what to enter here, leave them blank.

Script Directory:
cgi-bin//addlist.pl

HTML Directory:
your_root//addlist.html

Addlist Options

These are options for configuring the script. Click on the link for each option to read about what it does. All of the options are defaulted to the most popular settings. If you don't understand what an option does, don't worry about it. Leave it set to the default setting.

Name of the maillist text file:
Replace the "/yourdir/mailist.txt" with the name of your home directory and the name of your mail list text file.

Email List Order: