How to automatically email a page?
Submitted by Anna on Fri, 10/12/2007 - 04:26.
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I ought to know this, but I don't.
My (handmade) aggregator site's front page is dynamically changing. I'd like to allow people to sign up to have it emailed to them every morning. Is there an easy way to set things up so this can happen automatically?
(I can run a script daily, but I don't have an email server(??) on the site, so what should the script do?)
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hmm. depends
on the script, i guess. you should be able to have it email that days entries once a day, pulling the names from a database. seems like a lot of work, though, when there are tools to do it.
not sure of any snippets or anything off hand that could plug in easily. i'll keep my eyes open, though.
send me the site if you want and i'll take a look. what language is the script in?
It's more the mechanics of "send an email, daily, safely"
The site is ncvoices.us, the script that generates the site is in Ruby, but the email script could presumably be any language, I would think.
I haven't done anything with regularly, scriptedly, sending an email in a safe&secure manner.
And if you email a page does its stylesheet still apply to it?
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I'm more of a tinkerer (hacker) than a programmer, so I find it easier to just go with newsletter app in the CMS I've picked.
I eventually do want to develop my own software (or expand on Drupal and give back to the community), but you need resources or time to do that and I don't have either at the moment.
That said, you should be able to whip something up with RoR to do the emailing. I'd just recommend making it opt-in, unsunscribable, etc.
-kpaul