Dear List -- I hope you can help me find books, reading materials, and possibly developers in my area that can help me customize Mailman for one of my clients. I previously posted to one of the language specific Mailman lists, but got no replies.
If you have the time to read the details below and can recommend ways to get started using Mailman/Python, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, what is the 'best' way to look for Mailman resources? Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz Database Designer/Web Administrator International Society for Infectious Diseases The situation: I am a FileMaker Pro developer in the Boston area. My client is the International Society for Infectious Diseases <http://www.isid.org> and I have become their de facto IT department. Prior to my arrival, they were running a collection of carefully moderated mailing lists with majordomo on a Sun 250 machine (Solaris 8) <http://www.promedmail.org> with about 32,000 subscribers. They still do so today. They have purchased a Mac OS XServe (dual 1.25GHz), running OS X 10.3 (Panther), Apache 1.3 and Mailman 2.1.4 and want to take advantage of the pre-installed Mailman What is needed: How can we adapt the public subscription pages to limit user's options? Although Mailman provides a wealth of options, our users truly need less. Right now, most of them know nothing more than subscribe/unsubscribe via email, and we employ customized web pages that issue email-based commands on their behalf. One major reason for switching to Mailman was the internationalization support. We are now running one list which should be sending almost exclusively Cyrillic posts (Russian). What is required to insure postings appear in Cyrillic text? Will they be UNICODE or HTML/charset encoded? (i.e. How will the Oracle 9i system handle the posts, assuming that it gets them at all? We want to be able to search that database in Cyrillic after all.) Our UNIX/Perl programmer has already modified the message headers to include a necessary custom header to integrate with an Oracle database archiving system for searching and displaying posts. Has this been done 'correctly'? Is it possible to create our own customized subscription pages that issue the required Python commands AND some additional FileMaker/Lasso/XML commands to update the subscriber database used by the office staff? We need to gather more information than simply an email address. We ask list members for contributions and use aggregate statistics in grant proposals, so email addresses alone are not sufficient. If there is a seamless way to integrate the systems, that would be preferable. ------------------------------------------------------ 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