[Mailman-Users] Sourcing Mailman's usename/password

[Jeff Barger]

On Aug 5, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Mike Flaherty wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to create a little file upload area on my website for 
> folks on my list to upload files to.  It would be great if I could set 
> it up to require a valid Mailman email address/password in order to 
> authenticate them.
>
> I notice that the Mailman databases are not flat ASCII text.
>
> Is it possible, with perl, to check against the Mailman subscriber 
> database in order to confirm the matching of a given email 
> address/password?

Probably not (directly) with perl, but it's certainly doable in python.


-Jeff