Installing an unsubscribe button

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Can anyone please help by telling me how I can install an unsubscribe button on my marketing emails?

Thanks.

[sgpratley]

An unsubscribe button is a link that carries some information about who the email was sent to. You then log that in a list in a file or a database.

You then exclude that list from subsequent mailings

You need to be able to make a link like:

http://www.mysite.com/unsubscribe.ph...dy@hotmail.com


the 'somebody@hotmail.com' can be created when you merge the email list with your message

unsubscribe.php is the script that takes that email and adds it to a list.

There's a bit about how to write to a basic text file here. All you need now is to get the value of 'email' and write that out.

Clear as mud?

The other way is to link to a form on your site, so no need to merge anything in the email. get the user to enter their email address and have that email removed or flagged as unmailable in your database.

Your best bet is to use a commercial email service like Constant Contact or Aweber that will do it all for you.

Good luck!

[Donk]

I have an "optin" field in my email data base which is initially set to 0.

When a customer clicks on the link in the optin email this field is set to 1
Similarly when he clicks on the optout link it is reset to 0

My email script simply selects members in the database where optin=1