On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Chris Nulk wrote:
It was just for the other "list of email addresses" options I was curious about. If they are defined by a backend database, am I restricted to the same backend database as I am using for members
list? Or, can I use a different backend for each of the "list of email addresses" options whether it be LDAP, MySQL, Postgresql, etc. or any combination of the mix?
In thinking about this a bit more, for MM3, you might in fact be able
to get away with just re-implementing the roster layer. It's rosters
that tell mailing lists two important facts: 1) who gets to post to a
mailing list and 2) who gets delivery of posted messages. Rosters are
really just queries, they have no persistent storage themselves. So
while I still think it would take some clever programming, it should
be possible to keep user information in the RDBMS and provide for
subscription information by LDAP.
Now, about an LDAP interface to MM3 (or possibly making the MM2 more complete), is anyone interested in what ideas I have thought about?
If so, a new thread should probably be started.
Sure, I'd like to hear it because I think this will be an interesting
use case.
-Barry