Trouble creating unsubscribe functionality

[gwh]

Hi everyone,

I'm creating an html newsletter in dreamweaver and will use MaxBulk Mailer to send it out using the text/html option. I'm having problems though figuring out how to create the unsubscribe functionality.

I've search the maxprog site and have found a few options but I have a few questions though. Firstly one source says to use the following int he footer of the email:

mailto:stanley@mydomain.org?Subject=Unsubscribe&Reply-To=[E-mail Address]

I then found information on theh Unsubscribe PHP script which says to add the following url to the message footer:

http://www.yourdomain.com/myfolder/unsubscribe.php?email=<subscriber_email>

Can someone tell me which of the above two URLs I should use as the URL link in my html email?

Also, I was hoping to use the php script but I'm also having trouble understanding the instructions:

chmod unsubscribe.dat to 666

I'm using dreamweaver and don't know how to do this - can someone give me a few pointers here also?

Appreciate any replys.

Thanks

[stanbusk]

The best is the PHP script. To CHMOD a file, just use you FTP software.

[gwh]

Thanks for the reply,

If I use the URL specified in the PHP script, ie:

http://www.yourdomain.com/myfolder/unsubscribe.php?email=<subscriber_email>

...do I leave the <subscriber_email> tag as is, or do I replace it with something. I assumed this tag would automatically get replaced with the email address of the person wanting to unsubscribe - is this right?

Also, you say to just use my FTP software - as I said I use the FTP built into dreamweaver and I don't know how to CHMOD a file from here. Actually I don't even know what it means to CHMOD a file!! Can you give a further explanation?

[stanbusk]

If you use it with MaxBulk Mailer use the [E-mail Address] tag.

http://www.yourdomain.com/myfolder/unsubscribe.php?email=[E-mail Address]

CHMOD means changing privileges. I found that: How to CHMOD Perl Scripts from the Dreamweaver Site Window

[gwh]

Thanks for the CHMOD link.

The only problem is that I've just found out from my web host that permissions 666 and 777 are considered insecure on their servers, and running any scripts with these permissions would result in an Internal Server Error. I was told to leave the default permissions (775). Would this cause the script not to work if I did that?

[stanbusk]

It is possible it will work but I haven't tried.

[timprotech]