Hi there,

I was just reading through the archives from December and I came across a mention that in MM2.1, it will be/is possible to store list member information in an external datastore, eg. an SQL database.

This would be a big help to me, because I'd like to be able to set and change the passwords for list members programmatically from another database, and currently I can't see any way of doing that using the existing Mailman interface scripts.

So, I have two questions:

1. Can someone confirm that storing member data, eg. passwords, in an external SQL database will be possible in MM2.1?

2. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about setting the password for users added programmatically to lists, rather than having Mailman choose arbitrary passwords itself?

Thanks for your help.

mas

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