[Mailman-Developers] Integration with a separate RDBMS

[Barry Warsaw]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Jon Ball wrote:

> 1. Has anyone already set up Mailman using email addresses stored in an
> external database, and ideally can point to code and a working example 
> on
> the www?  THIS IS VERY MUCH THE PREFERRED ANSWER.

I think Marc-Andre Lemburg  -- and perhaps others -- have solutions, 
which may be commercial.

> 2. Can someone speculate on the feasibility of doing this and the 
> amount of
> work involved?  If it would require any serious hacking to Mailman, it 
> is
> probably not going to be feasible to use Mailman at this organisation 
> at all
> as they have no in-house programming skills.

If you wanted to roll your own, you'd have to implement a 
MemberAdaptor.py implementation that talks to your commercial db.  It 
shouldn't be too hard.

-Barry