On 06/05/2015 09:04 AM, Jerry Barnabee wrote:

I want to be able to run a cronjob on my server that uses a php script to add new users and/or remove users from a mailing list. Not having any luck finding any simple examples. My thought is that the php script would get email addresses from a database (which I can do) and then feed them to a mailman command line to either add or remove a user.

Mailman's sync_members command does exactly what you want. You would use proc_open() in your php script to create pipes to and from the command, then write the desired membership list one user per line in the form

"User's Name" user@example.com

to the command's input and read the output. The display name in the above example is optional, but is used as the real_name attribute of a user added by the command.

The cronjob is entered via Cpanel. Have several cronjobs that modify databases but have never tried something that would actually execute a unix command.

In cPanel, the command you want is /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members.

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members -h

will give usage info. The actual command you'd run with proc_open() is

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members -f - LISTNAME

where -f - says use stdin as the input and LISTNAME is the actual cPanel list_domain list name. See the help for other options controlling notices and whether or not to actually update the list or just report (good for testing).

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