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MAILOMATIC Email List Manager V1.5, Readme.txt
copyright P. R. Ryan, March 2001 mailomatic@mujik.com
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Mailomatic is an automated online email manager for Unix-based web servers. 
I do not know if this is portable to WinNT or Win2k servers but since it 
heavily utilises Unix system calls, I think not. 
If someone wants to confirm this (or do a port !!) please let me know !!

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How it works:

     By default, a inputted address is checked that it is syntactically in proper 
email format, then an automatic 'please' confirm notice is sent to their email 
address - this is probably the only way to practically test whether or not inputted 
address are 'real' - even a fairly complicated 'whois' script I have been playing 
with still only returns that the domain is alive - very few public servers allow 
a 'finger' so there is really no way - barring sending a confirmation mail - to 
check that any given user actually exists.
     The 'please confirm' mail contains a tailor made confirmation 'string' 
- the cgi based url that will activate the add_email function of the script. 
All a user needs to do is to click on the url to be automatically entered into the 
list. When this happens, they will receive a second automatic mail confirming 
their successful entry into the list and another automatically generated cgi-based 
url that allows them to automatically unsubscribe from the list.

Most of the setup sequence is in the first section of the script - if
you put the right settings in, it will work. 

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COPYRIGHT
This script is freeware but please leave my email address links intact.
If you really can't stand my name, send me US$10.00 and you can take it
off :)

Paul Ryan
mailomatic@mujik.com

March 2001