[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] including other fields in Mailman membership info

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:21 PM -0700 2005-10-12, Jon Dugan wrote:

>  Is there a way to get mailman to have more than just the name and
>  email fields?  While I recognize this would complicate things -- I'd
>  really like to leverage the great interface, password mailing,
>  confirmation -- etc. all in a broader membership database.

	Mailman does not have a membership database.  There are 
unsupported third-party patches to provide a database "member 
adapter", but that's not the same thing.

>  Separate from the above, is there a way to make a call within "Full
>  Personalization" to extract a custom piece of data to place into an
>  email?
>
>  For example, if I do have to store the comapny name for each member in
>  an external database, is there a way to get it into each email when
>  sending?

	See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.037.htp>.

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