Hi

I'm looking for a new mailing list manager, and one of the requirements is that it has a web interface, and that it can use SAML authentication. Looking at MM3, I see that there are several options for running the web interface, one of them is Apache & mod_proxy. We already have had positive experiences with mod_mellon (which adds SAML authentication), and another web application (Atlassian Confluence), which sounds like a similar set-up, so I think this could be made to work with MM3 as well. The only issue I'm having is that our current IDM system is build around the concept of identifying users by ID, in our case an integer. My Python knowledge is pretty basic, but from src/mailman/model/user.py it looks like MM3 users are also identified by an id. That would be great, because then Apache with mod_mellon could authenticate a user and populate HTTP headers with the user id, and then MM3 could pick that up.

Am I assuming the right things?

PS, I'm asking because I've looked at another mailing list manager as well, but that seemed to using the e-mail address as the user identifier, which rendered it useless for us...

Thanks!!!

-- Dick Visser System & Networking Engineer TERENA Secretariat Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam The Netherlands