Hi,
I will shortly become the List Admin for 11 mailing lists being transferred from Majordomo to Mailman all at the same time (the big bang approach). I've read the manuals and understand a lot of the admin functions but have some areas that I am not clear about and am looking for some guidance please.
The current Mailing Lists are made up of 1 public list (no problems), 3 for Members only of a large organisation (>100,000 members but only about 500 on each of the three Mailing Lists), and the remaining 7 are all small (restricted numbers, typically <10) discussion lists for various admin functions of the Organisation.
The questions I have are as follows:-
I need to be able to verify a Membership Number for applicants for the 3 Members only Lists before approving their addition to the appropriate List - Mailman allows an (optional) Name to be submitted through the web interface for joining but that is not enough. We currently gather Names, Membership Number, and email addresses through a Webmail form and then add them (after verification) by email to the appropriate List through Majordomo.
First of all, I will need to transfer several hundred email addresses from Majordomo to Mailman for a couple of the Mailing Lists.
Question 1 - Is there a way to add large numbers of email addresses as List members to Mailman easily and quickly in one, or a few, simple actions?
Question 2 - Can email addresses be added singly (as Members of the List, not using the nonmember options in the List Administration area) to the Mailman List by an Administrator by email as per majordomo?
Question 3 - Could a Membership Number Field be added to the Mailman Web Sign up form? If so, would it show up in the List Admin or Moderator Approval system if subscribe_policy is set to approval?
Last of all, we already have a "Members Only" section of our website which needs the Members to "log in" using username and password so this automatically validates their Membership and their right to be there.
Question 4 - Can the Web Interface for signing up for the various Lists be customised so that a Members Only Mailing List sign-up web page is only accessible in a Members Only directory/area of the website yet the Public List is in a (different) Public directory/area of the Website?
Thanks in advance for any help - it will be much appreciated - I haven't got access to a set-up copy of Mailman yet that I can play with the Admin functions so am learning by studying the manuals.
Regards
Mike Lyne UK
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