I looked at different sites (hotscritps.com etc) and the amout of mailing list scripts is huge. For the last 4 days I have downloaded and installed over 20 mailing list. Yet not of them seems to be what I am looking for. Its madness!

What I am looking for is simple.

Sending the newsletter in HTML and people don't have HTML support on their email, they get a link back to my site where the newsletter is stored on mysite in my own template. For exampel http://www.holidaycars.com/newsletter/affiliate/nl/nieuwsbrief_AUGUSTUS_2005.html

The subscribe form should be just a form for email. Nothing more.

Have you seen such a mailing list script?

Have you a preference in regards to language and database? If you're willing/able to use asp/mssql, I've some very good ones to share...

@hafa

I use MySQL Databases and PHP version 4.4.1

As for a language, Dutch would be great, but if it is in English I can translate it myself.

I have a Linux host and thus can not use ASP.

Thank you for your offer.

What is wrong with mailman? It is provided with most (if not all) Linux hosts, and does a great job. Its the preferred mailing list software for some of the biggest lists out there.

As for the link in the email, this is just a matter of sending the email formatted correctly in the first place. If your email has an alternative text part, then your users will see that if they don't have HTML messages enabled.

Of course, if you don't find anything that does this to your satisfaction, you can always roll your own. What I prefer to do is let mailman take care of the annoying mail sending bits (since it does it so well), and then write my own custom frontend for it in PHP.

@fyrestrt

I am going to look for mailman.

The reason I want my newsletters to be online, is to give visitors a change to see old newsletters.

The reason I want my newsletters to be online, is to give visitors a change to see old newsletters.

mailman has excellent archiving features. The only gripe that I have with it is that its interface (especially the web frontend) is very unfriendly.

As an example, here are the archives (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/) for the mailman users mailing list (of course, run by mailman). The server is python.org because mailman is a python application.