[Mailman-Users] MySQL database?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:23:31PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
 
> > 2) using MySQL or data from MySQL to include in the mail list.
> 
> Not really possible in 2.0, easier but not done yet in 2.1.  You end up
> doing tricks with ~mailman/bin/add_members until then.

Any reference to these "tricks"?

I'm interested in what may be a slightly different question:
Is there any official way of maintaining a "master" list, perhaps in XML,
so the new user is asked to give some information, eg full name,
which is then kept (somewhere) with the email address?




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