[Mailman-Developers] Integrating Mailman with a single sign-on service

[Alisdair Tullo]

Hi,

Here at the University of Edinburgh we have a single sign-on service based 
on Cosign ( http://www.umich.edu/~umweb/software/cosign/ ). I've selected 
Mailman as the mailing list software for a project I'm working on, and I'd 
like to integrate it with Cosign if possible.

I have a few questions about Mailman, if someone familiar with the code 
can answer them I'd be very grateful.

1. Is there a top-level design document for Mailman?

2. Cosign gives a username in REMOTE_USER in each HTTP request. My intent 
is to get users to sign up by entering this username and an email address, 
then the web interface for Mailman would take the value of REMOTE_USER and 
map it to the email address. Which area of the source should I be looking 
at?

3. Would someone familiar with the Mailman web interface be willing to 
help further and answer more detailed questions as I progress?

I've spent some time already looking through the source, but as you can 
appreciate it's tricky working out where to get started.

Cheers,

Alisdair

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