Okay, here's the situation. My web host Dream Host, provides a built in mailing list system for its members to contact website visitors with newsletters, etc. The Problem is the system only takes subscriptions through a form. They provide the html, which you'll get if you take the job. There is no “subscribe by email?? feature. Since I'm not paying for the system, rather than pay for expensive subscription services, I would rather get the most out of this. I asked the tech. support dept. if there was such a tool to implement a “subscribe by email?? with this system, and they said that they suspected such features are usually custom-made. So. . . I need a script that will take an email message that is sent, extract the name and email address, (if there's no name, that's okay, I know not all emails have embedded names) and submit it to the form. Once it's submitted, the form will do its thing and the visitor should be redirected to a thank-you page. Lastly, I'll need some sort of instructions so that the application of this script can be duplicated on similar websites in the same situation by someone without programming knowledge.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) Complete ownership and distribution copyrights to all work purchased. 4) Complete instructions for duplicating the product's application in similar situations, by someone inexperienced in programming.
## Platform
Any common consumer web browsers and email clients. Dreamhost runs on Debian Linux