[Mailman-Developers] Priority/status of moderated-edit and external user DB

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Kevin McCann">

> 1) External user database. I'm sure you're all aware of the desire of some
> folks to have this. I found a Wiki document somewhere on the zope.org site
> that had discussions on this but I believe it was somewhat dated. Have any
> conclusions been reached with respect to the direction here? I think I
> read talk of a Zope-specific solution. I'm wondering if this means that
> we're likely never to see a Mailman that can talk to a MySQL database. I
> believe this one feature alone would elevate Mailman significantly. How
> hgh of a priority is this to the development team and what is the status?
> Are there current discussions on this somewhere other than the list (wiki
> boards, chats, what-have-you) , and if so, may I take part?

See MemberAdapter in Mailman 2.1.x. As it happens, I'm currently writing an
advanced LDAP backend [ yes, I've see the other one :-) ].

- Jeff

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