existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

[Matthias Rebbe]

Hi Mark,

thanks for the offer. I will play/try a little bit and come back to you if i get stuck.

Regards,

Matthias
Am 03.06.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>:

> Hi Matthias,
> 
> I get it. A simple link in the e-mail is sufficient. I'd expect LC Server to be able to send an e-mail from the shell if no other command is available. The link should run a brief script that updates a field in your database.
> 
> Your hosting account should have a mail command line utility, which you can call with the shell function, e.g.
> 
> mail -n -s "Subject" -b support at domain.com customer at somewhere.com
> 
> I have a collection of PHP scripts, which you might be able to use, including a captcha. It is easily adjusted to send a confirmation e-mail. Perhaps I could help you with this if you contact me off-list?
> 
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> 
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 6/3/2013 13:05, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> double opt-in means, the user gets an email after subscribing  to confirm that she/he really wants to subscribe and that no one else just added her/his email address just for fun.
>> This shall avoid legal actions against the newsletter sender. I do not know if this is only a german problem or maybe EU wide, but sending promotion emails to people w/o their confirmation could cause big legal trouble to the sender.
>> 
>> Here´s a german wikipedia explanation. I could not found an english one.
>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-in
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 
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