[Mailman-Users] Dynamic subscriber lists
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Mon Feb 2 21:16:53 CET 2004
At 12:09 PM -0600 2004/02/02, Chris Barnes wrote:
> This is a repost of a question I asked last week. NOBODY replied - even
> just to say "can't be done".
Speaking only for myself, if I am silent on an advanced technical
issue, that usually means that I have no clue how the problem might
be solved.
> I am considering using a real MLM to manage the mailling lists we use
> within our department. However, one of the requirement for this is
> that the product must be able to get is subscriber list from our LDAP
> (OpenLDAP 3) information store.
>
> For example, in LDAP there is an attribute for each user that tells us
> whether they are "faculty", "staff", "grad", or "undergrad" (there are
> others, but this works for the example).
>
> I need a MLM that can make an LDAP query and get all of the "faculty",
> then send the message out. It needs to do this for EVERY message for
> that list.
I'm quite certain that the current version of Mailman does not
support alternative back-end databases, whether SQL or LDAP or
whatever. I do not know of any mailing list package that can use
LDAP as a back-end, although there are some that can use SQL (e.g.,
Lyris, which is an expensive commercial package).
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
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