ListServer Help


The program has two options for subscribing to your newsletter or list server.
  1. Single Opt-In
    This option will write the users profile directly to the database. It will send the user an email thanking them for subscribing. Then sending them to a pre-defined thank you page, or a custom thank you page.
    You can use a popup window, or a simple form on your page.

  2. Double Opt-In
    This option will send the user an email with a link that they MUST click on in order to activate their subscription. There are 2 HTML pages that you can customize for use with this option, they are accessable from your admin program.
With either option, these are the fields available.
  • Email
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Field 1 (use for anything)
  • Field 2 (use for anything)
  • Field 3 (use for anything)
  • Up To 9 Fields (use for anything)
    Only the email address is required.

    There are 9 extra fields you can use for collecting any data you want or need. The field names are defined in the administration program.
    The fields are used to personalize the emails when you send to your list. We use search and replace to enter data from the database into the email where you specify you want the field. See the administration program for more details on using the field data.

    Demo of the administration pages

    Installation Help


    • Required Tags
    <FORM Name=Subscribe METHOD="Post" ACTION="http://server/cgi-bin/listserver/listserver.pl">
    <INPUT TYPE="Hidden" NAME="subscribe" Value="Yes">
    <Input Type=Text Name=email Value="" Size=40>
    </FORM>


    Single Opt-In Only - Optional Tags
    Use only one of the tags below.
    Use this tag to print a responce to the user after subscribing.
    Or use the thank you page defined in the admin program.
    If you are using the popup page, USE MUST THIS TAG. see popup.html
    <INPUT TYPE="Hidden" NAME="responce" Value="http://www.rlaj.com/scripts/responce.html">

    Use this tag to redirect the user after subscribing to any page defined in the tag
    <INPUT TYPE="Hidden" NAME="redirect" Value="http://www.rlaj.com/scripts">
    If the redirect tag is not present on your form, the thank you page will be displayed.


    If neither tag is present on the form, the program will use the file -> thanks-page.html
    located in the /cgi-bin/listserver/data folder. You can edit this with your admin pargram.

    Optional Tags
    F. Name: <Input Type=Text Name=fname Value="" Size=40>
    L. Name: <Input Type=Text Name=lname Value="" Size=40>
    Field1: <Input Type=Text Name="field1" Value="">
    Field2: <Input Type=Text Name="field2" Value="" Size=40>
    Field3: <Select Name="field3"><Option Value="Yahoo">Yahoo
    <Option Value="Google">Google<Option Value="RLAJ.COM">RLAJ.COM
    <Option Value="Other">Other</Select>

    Installation Help

    If you want to generate the database from data that you already have,
    this is the format used in the emailaddress.txt file.
    The delineator is a pipe (|)
    emailaddress|F name|L name|field 1|field 2|field 3|field 4|field 5|field 6|field 7|field 8|field 9|status|unix date|UserIP|

    The status field must be '1' in order to send mail. The unix date is the format 1048008563

    Only the email address and the status are required.