MLM

This is just a hobby script, it isn't secure.

Mailman is recommended

Mailing List Manager

• Deploy a mailing list for your website.

Dependencies

• bsd-mailx
• lynx
• fcgiwrap

Prerequisites

• You have an email server running. See here
• You have a website running with nginx reverse proxy

In your nginx configuration file add these lines:

location /ml {
	return 403;
}

location /subscribe.html {
	gzip off;
	include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params ;
	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/example/ml/subscribe; # Change this
	fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
}

location /unsubscribe.html {
	gzip off;
	include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params ;
	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/example/ml/unsubscribe; # Change this
	fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
}

• copy over the folder ml (which stands for mailing list) into your webroot
  • cd ml
  • Run chown -R www-data:www-data .
  • Run chmod 644 emails.txt
  • Run chmod 755 on subscribe and unsubscribe

Stop Spam

• cd /var/log
• chmod 644 mail.info
• Now the subscribe script can read if the email recipient wasn't valid and not add it to the mailing list

Usage

mup can be placed in /usr/local/bin and when ran by itself will broadcast your latest announcement, an html post.

When run with an html post argument, mup post.html, it will send out that specific post.

• Change the placeholder text wherever you see a comment telling you to change it

TODO

• write a Makefile