[Mailman-Users] External membership sources

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:17 PM -0500 2005-06-13, Tracey McCartney wrote:

>  Is this "external membership sources" feature documented somewhere yet, and
>  can it be implemented by list administrators, or is it available only to
>  the folks who have access to the server Mailman's running on?

	There's the LDAP member adapter, and there may also be other 
member adapters as well.  However, to make use of them will require 
full administrative access to the server where Mailman is installed.

>                                                                Our Mailman
>  lists run in a shared hosting environment.  I'd love to be able to run
>  Mailman from a MySql database so that I don't have to keep up with
>  subscribers in two different places.

	Talk to your hosting provider.  They may be able to help you.

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