This all sounds fine. It's trivially easy to add a list of email addresses to a list (there's a textbox on the admin page that you dump them into and click a button)
Mass-adding the lists is a bit trickier, I think. However, if they're all basically the same you can generate one configuration file sans things like the list name, and then programmatically (e.g., with a shell script, or whatever you prefer) generate all 90 (was it?) if your lists. I'm not sure where/how to get this file except by (a) adding a list using the normal method, and then (b) using config_list -o <file> <listname> to dump its config. Someone else may know a better way. As for the bits 1-3: 1. Templates for messages are stored in $prefix/mailman/templates/<LANG> -- The welcome message is 'subscribeack.txt' -- On my box templates is a symlink to /etc/mailman, but YMMV. 2. The simplest way to accomlish this seems to be to (a) set 'default_member_moderation' to 1 in the config files as described above, (b) set member_moderation_action to 2 (discard: e.g., don't accept, and also don't tell the sender about it), (c) set generic_nonmember_action to 3 (discard), and (d) add the sender address for your java program to the 'accept_these_nonmembers' list. 3. Yep, should be fine. Someone else might be able to come up with better ways to do the above. I am far from authoritative. :) - Patrick Bogen On 2/17/06, Luke Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, Mailman is looking like the solution to my problems. > > To get this going I need to create mailman lists from my existing email > addresses to vendor mappings in the MySQL DB (I don't want everyone already > signed up to have to re-subscribe). Is it easy to import a list to Mailman? > > Once I have my lists in place I think the following is required: > > 1. Create a customized welcome message that avoids mentioning how to post to > the list so new people joining. > > 2. Restrict the list so only authorized persons can post. My java program > will be this "person". Not sure how to configure this from a Mailman point > of view yet. > > 3. Modify my DB table to map the Mailman send list addresses to a vendors. > Thus my program sends a mail to that address and Mailman distributes it to > the members. > > Does all this sound reasonable? > > Thanks for all the help thus far :-) > > Luke > > > >From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Luke Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,mailman-users@python.org > >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject) > >Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:04:53 -0800 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Received: from mail.value.net ([205.208.202.10]) by > >bay0-mc6-f3.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 16 > >Feb 2006 13:05:47 -0800 > >Received: from msapiro [209.182.169.133] by mail.value.net with ESMTP > >(SMTPD32-8.15) id A8F722F70152; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:04:55 -0700 > >X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Z3TmmkSEdPtfpLB7P/ybN8= > >X-Mailer: Ultrafunk Popcorn 1.74 (11-May-2005) > >Organization: Not Very Much > >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 21:05:48.0488 (UTC) > >FILETIME=[C2BD5480:01C6333C] > > > >Luke Shannon wrote: > > > > >Actually it doesn't really need to be in MySQL. As long as Mailman > >handles > > >the add and removing of addresses to a list and creates an alias for each > > >list, my java program could be tweaked to send mail to all alias rather > >than > > >a set of email addresses (as it does now). > > > > > >Mailman does not create an alias per se. It does provide a list posting > >address and receives posts at that address and sends them to the list > >members. > > > >If the only purpose of your MySQL database is to provide a list of > >people/addresses to deliver to, you could use Mailman without > >modification and let it maintain it's own membership list and handle > >bounce processing and subscribe/unsubscribe, etc. > > > >See > ><http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp> > >for information about setting up announcement (one-way) lists. > > > >-- > >Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/pdbogen%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ 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
