If for some reasone you don't want to use an existing package, one thing you could do is just use a simple cgi form to do the collecting (since most people sign up when viewing a page anyway).

What I've done in the past is
  1. they submit their address via form.
  2. I generate a random digest and store the email in a temporary place (using Cache::FileCache, etc).
  3. I send the user a text email with a link to another script that validates it. The digest is in the url.
  4. If it's a valid address, they get the mail, click the link and the program adds them to the live list.


Something like this is pretty straight forward to code. Handling a generic list subscribe would most likely be really time consuming. Many nuances I'm sure.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: Making an Opt-in Mailing List by shotgunefx
in thread Making an Opt-in Mailing List by jerrygarciuh

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