Hi list, I'm going to be deploying mailman in place of majordomo soon, but just have some questions that i've not been able to find answers for thus far...
We have an institution wide LDAP service which will increasingly contain information that we would use for building lists from. This would include both lists created dynamically from the ldap info at mail-time, and also those created (perhaps via a script) that check for an attribute at some given point and build a list. In addition to the above we use the LDAP servers for authentication for services such as mail, and the passwords stored here are in sync with those on our Active Directory setup. It is *very* desireable to be able to allow users to authenticate for mailing list purposes by using their existing password that is used for all other services (mail, webmail, logging on, restricted site access etc) I know that some of this functionality is available via 3rd party plugins, but I'm wondering if this will be integrated with the mail mailman stream in the future, as i'd look silly working to merge things and then finding that! ;) Obviously monthly reminders etc are inappropriate in this setup, we wouldn't want the passwords being pushed about in plain text. But i'm happy that's not a major problem and can be sorted whenever. Any pointers or info about the mailman roadmap much appreciated, as are comments from people (esp educational institutions) running in a similar fashion. Cheers James McCrea Computing Officer University of Kent NB, just in case it helps, here's our background: We have approx 2000 lists, most of which are less than a hundred addressses and change relatively frequently (~annually) and the others which are just a few lists with many users (up to a few thousand addresses) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp