[Mailman-Users] integrating mailman members list with another database

[Steven Stern]

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On 11/04/2007 05:25 PM, David Beaumont wrote:
> We run a mailman list.  Anyone can subscribe but we would prefer to restrict
> subscription to members of our not-for-profit organisation.  We have those
> members on an online database.  Has anyone ever linked the mailman list of
> subscribers to another database of email addresses and is there any way
> apart fom manually checking against our membership list and manually
> deleting subscribers to our mailman list?
> 
> Apologies if it's in the FAQ I did look though.
> 
> thanks
> 
> David

Here's the basic outline:

Extract a list of member email addresses.

 /usr/local/mailman/bin/sync_members -g=no -w=no -d=no -a=no -f
file_of_email_addresses list_name_here

The list is set up so confirmation of subscription is required (and we
never confirm when someone tries).

We run this process at the top of every hour.  Users
subscribe/unsubscribe through our member services profiler, not through
he list itself.

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  Steve
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