[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] interface mailman list passwords python cgi

J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:38:44 -0800


On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:53:06 +0000 
Andy Heath <andyheath2@lineone.net> wrote:

> I need to write some cgi applications with python that interface
> to mailman 1.0 email id's and passwords - access only to list
> members, that sort of thing.

Study ~bin/withlist.

> I'd appreciate advice on how to go about this.  I find some
> "config.db" files which obviously is some sort of database
> containing the info.  Is there some easy way I can get into this
> info ?

config.db is a python pickle -- essentially a streamed python structure.

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