Subscribing To Newsletter

[learn4life]

There are many websites out there that gives you the option to subscribe to their newsletter. I was wondering how it works. Is it a database that collects the emails then automatically sends the newsletter or is is usually handled manually?

Thanks!

[celgins]

Most newsletter subscriptions are handled automatically with a database on the server-side.

A user submits his/her email address; they receive a confirmation email at that email address; they click a link within that email to verify their identity; and that link usually starts a process which copies that users' email address to the database.

This is only one way to accomplish it. Some programmers may have other methods.