Detailed summary of PHP mass mailing system phplist configuration method_php skills

The example in this article describes the configuration method of PHP's mass mailing system phplist. Share it with everyone for your reference, the details are as follows:

phplist is a very good mass mailing system, which allows us to easily mass mail electronic magazines, small advertisements (^_^), etc.

I recently helped a teacher build a mass email system, using phplist. However, the information on building this system on the Internet is very fragmented, and it takes some effort to put it together. And now that I have done this work, I will share it with you. I hope it will be useful to everyone. (In addition, sending emails through phplist or phpmailer through gmail is more troublesome than sending through other mailboxes. If you need to send through gmail, after reading the basic configuration in this article, please refer to "phplist and phpmailer( Use in combination) Configuration method for sending emails through gmail 》 for further configuration)

1. Download and use the latest version of phplist (I use phplist-2.10.12).

2. Put the lists directory under public_html into your own web directory (on the server).

3. Modify lists/config/config.php, modify the database-related information around line 20, and then create an empty database with the same name as $database_name in MySQL (it is recommended to change the database connection proofreading to utf8_general_ci to prevent Chinese garbled characters) .

4. Access /lists/admin/ on the server through the browser. At this time, it will prompt that the database has not been initialized. Click the "initialize database" link to initialize the database. There may be an initialization error in a table (user_blacklist_data) during initialization. That table is about the user blacklist. I don't need this function. If it doesn't affect the use, I don't need to worry about this error. But if you can't tolerate this error, I also have a solution here: find

in lists/admin/structure.php

"user_blacklist" => array(
 "email" => array("varchar(255) not null unique","Email"),
 "added" => array("datetime","When added to blacklist"),
 "index_1" => array("emailidx (email)",""),
)

was changed to

"user_blacklist" => array(
 "email" => array("varchar(233) not null unique","Email"),
 "added" => array("datetime","When added to blacklist"),
 "index_1" => array("emailidx (email)",""),
)

Just drop the database, rebuild it, and re-initialize the database.

5. Some basic configurations need to be done below:

Still lists/config/config.php, found around line 190

define("TEST", 1);

was changed to

define("TEST", 0);

Because only non-test mode can actually send emails.

Then find

around line 650

define("PHPMAILERHOST",'');

This is the SMTP server name. I use Sohu’s email address, so I changed it to

define("PHPMAILERHOST",'smtp.sohu.com');

You can find it a few lines down

#$phpmailer_smtpuser = 'smtpuser';
#$phpmailer_smtppassword = 'smtppassword';

Remove the "#" used for comments in front of it, and fill in the username and password you use when sending emails. For example, I will change it to

$phpmailer_smtpuser = 'myname@sohu.com';
$phpmailer_smtppassword = 'mypassword';

If you are not using a gmail mailbox, you should be able to start sending emails (I have tested sohu mailboxes, qq mailboxes, and university school mailboxes) - but one thing to note is that when sending test emails The target address must be an email address that already exists in your user list, otherwise the sending will fail.

If you are using gmail, please refer to my other article "Configuration method of phplist and phpmailer (used in combination) to send emails through gmail".

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