List building script

I set it up on my server for a client...it does what it's supposed to do. However, I'm not 100% sure I'm in love with it. It leaves phplist links in every email it sends & it has them on the signup & thank you pages as well. You can get the 'powered by' image to go away, but it will replace it with a text link. Phplist doesn't have a paid/no back links version either, so if you're setting it up for a client where the extra links aren't gonna fly, you sadly have to start hackin code...or find a different option.

Customizing the signup page layouts is best left to a PHP geek, although you can edit the HTML portions of the footers & headers yourself from the control panel.

What is does that is cool though is that it can be set up to deliver messages through a pop/smtp connection...meaning if you technically could be sending your mailings from a free gmail server that has excellent sender reputation :-) I don't know if google would catch it or not though...but you can always do it till they tell you to quit it!

It's been a while, but I seem to remember there were some issues to get it working right with Lighttpd & Qmail which involved some server tweeking...not sure if your server is Apache/sendmail or lighttd/qmail. Most webservers are Apache..which is why mine are lighttpd..not as many hackers know about lighttpd.

If I were to reccomend a free mailing list script, I think I'd point people at PHPMailer-ML instead. It's quite a bit simpler in it's execution, but is definitely a free single list script that isn't peppered with links everywhere.

Just my $.02
Todd

Was just reading the phpmailer-ml page, and I guess they've modified it to handle multiple lists now...

I tried installing using fantastico and well it crashed so I uninstalled and going to run with aweber!

time is money!

Thanks for the reveiw

Danny

One thing is to remember, is email hosts won't automatically have your server white listed, and count it as SPAM in many more cases than AWeber, GetResponse, or some other large mailing list.

Even though there are some pretty robust, FREE php mailing lists, you get what you pay for.

Just my $.02.

-Lance

That's why they have the SMTP options...you can hook them to Gmail instead of using the sendmail/qmail setup on your own server.

I decided to run with aweber!

My time is very valueable so seemed to be worth the $200

Thanks for the advice

Danny

phplist is a great tool to start off with & you can certainly remove the text at the end if you know a bit of PHP / pay a little bit. However, once you start getting problems with your domain or gmail (who hates people putting big newsletters though their accounts) you can get in trouble.
But - if you don't think your list is going to be really big or ever annoy people, it's a great system. I used it for an art group with about 4000 members with no problems.