On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 05:02, Leigh Silvester wrote: > Okay I have spent about 5 hours going through archives but not found anything that > addresses my scenario. > > In a nutshell I wish to be able to manage the membership of a list via emails sent > by a PHP script, emails to a list admin which would probably include admin password > to authorise the action to automate administration. > > Background. > The lists are to be closed ones that are distribution lists for various > societies/organisations. > Have previously done this with ColdFusion/Lyris, where the Coldfusion scripts send > an email containing a password and "subscribe listname [EMAIL PROTECTED] joe bloggs > [quiet]" to a lyris list admin address that automatically adds that address to the > relevant list. > Similarly a passworded message containing "unsubscribe listname [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [quiet]" would remove that address. > > The intention is to update details on the list as users update their details on a > database conatining information in addition to their email address. This means users > have a single point of maintaining their details while the owners of these lists > gain the advantage of suing the efficiecny of using a mail list for mass emailing, > rather than doing PHP mail which can put a bit of a strain on the server when > sending tens of thousands of emails. > > Is such a thing possible with Mailman? > > I have done a few experiments sending emails with "subscribe" to a small closed list > I manage but it hits the "posting by a non-member" issue. > Obviously I could send it with the listmanager email address but then it would try > to subscribe the listmanager - which is already subscribed... > > Ideally I am hoping to be flamed with "... it's all here [link] in black and white > if you bother to look for it". > > This will be on a hosted server to which I will not have shell access. > > Regards > > Leigh
If you look *way* back in the archives you'll see a discussion from 3+ years back where I setup a client to be able to be able to do command line activities via special email addresses to a mailman list. Afterwards I coached someone else in a successful effort to do the same. The special addresses (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]) did a specified Admin task for a list. Each email had to start with a text line that included a special enabling password - something like: password: ubergeek That was followed by a list of email addresses to be removed from the list. The script sent back a confirmation email indicating which users had been removed and which were not (and the reason they were not - such as, "email address not found on list". These small command-lets are very easy to write. Of course these days, I would simply hack the Python code and add the desired functionality. Mailman's code is fairly easy to follow and it's all cut and paste. You might look at it as a good way to learn Python! Good Luck - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
