Hi there,
I'm just starting with drupal and this is my first post to the list, so bare with me.
I am trying to find a module that will allow me to have subscribers to a newsletter, however subscribers will not be (drupal) registered users. I believe the solution to this problem is either use mailman or phplist, however I don't have root access to the server which disables the option to install mailman. So I decided to try out phplist. After installing phplist, and pointing my browser to /lists/admin I had a message saying:
"Error: Database has not been initialised ,go to initialise database to continue"
I'm a bit a concerned about initialising the database, as I don't want to lose any of the data contained in it. This is, because phplist and drupal share the same database (don't have rights on the server to create a new database, that's why). In the config.php from phplist I set a different table prefix, so maybe initialising the database will just create a new table for phplist, but I am unsure. Could anyone tell me whether is safe to initialise the database or not?
I also have another installation on my home computer where I have drupal-6.9 (previous one is drupal-6.12). I use this installation for testing things out. So I installed phplist in this one, and configure it. Set permissions in drupal so I can access and administer phplist module. However when I go to drupal>site_configuration>phplist I get sent back to the site_configuration page whithout being able to configure the module at all. So can't tell phplist module what table prefix or database should be pointing to.
Any help is much appreciated,
eduard