[Mailman-Users] MySQL or other backends

[Mark Sapiro]

Patrick Bogen wrote:

>On 9/25/06, Jeremy Leonard <Jeremy at elite4god.com> wrote:
>> Does Mailman support using MySQL, LDAP or another SQL server for a backend?
>
>I believe there's a third-party patch/addon to use MySQL for storing
>membership information, although I think list configurations (and
>almost certainly archives) are still stored on the filesystem.
>
>Try searching for 'mailman mysql member adapter'.
>
>It would probably be fairly easy to modify this to use a different SQL
>server. Theoretically, LDAP, as well, although that would likely be a
>more extensive rewrite.
>
>If you're interested in storing *all* data on a MySQL server, you're
>out of luck as far as I know.


Patrick is correct. There is also a "read only" LDAP MemberAdaptor. You
can find both of these in the Mailman patch tracker on sf.net.

There is active work on the MySQL MemberAdaptor. See
<http://trac.rezo.net/trac/rezo/browser/Mailman/>.

Also see the Mailman 2.2 wiki at
<http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+2.2> for info on plans to
use some kind of SQL database for all list data, not just membership.

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