Make a Mailing list and Newsletter using ASP

[jedel]

Hi all,

Being on holidays, I thought I'd catch up with some website development (No this isn't my real job). I have spent all day searching for some means of setting up an email list for a number of email newsletters. This bit I can do relatively easily by a few input forms into a table on a database.

What I want to do next is set up each newsletter in a particular format depending on what the theme of the group is and place in between a "Header" and "Footer", The text that they wrote from the web page, be it from a form o an ASP page or whatever. I was thinking of three of four memo fields, one saying header, one Footer and the last the Body. So when the user logs in to create a newsletter, all they see is a form for the body of the newsletter. When they click a send button, it sends a page via email to all of the people in the subscribe table.

That's a bit long winded, and I apologize, but thats about all I want to do. Does ANYBODY know of such a design or can anyone help out with this? Point me in the right direction? Please?

Cheers

Dean

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[onpnt]

If I understand correctly all you need to do is store the HTML formatted newsletter in the DB. Then send that field as the body of the email

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[jedel]

That's Correct. Now I can set it up withas little as 4 fields, Title, Header (Top part of HTML Code) Body (Where the user enters the text) and Footer.

The problem is getting the detail page to display as the html page in the newsletter and then sending that page to the subscribers

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