Thnanks for very prompt response. I can obtain the list of members although I do not have server shell access, I can do it by email commands so that is no problem. I don't understand though how you use that.
I should add our mailman list is on a suppliers server. We have our own website on a different suppliers server. that website has a members only section where members have to login. Are you allowing only members of your list by making the only route to subscribing your own web site after logging in to your own web site? Thats seems a great idea, we could do that and then we wouldn't need to run the mailman subscribers list at all let alone once an hour. We would need to manuslly check all existing subscribers but only the once. I assume we would just edit the HTML of the standard mailman subscribe page to tell them to login to our site instead. One question though is there a simple way to prevent non members subscribing by just guessing the subscribe email address? Oh one more when our members leave they will still stay as subscribers to the mailman list. thnaks David Steven Stern wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/04/2007 05:25 PM, David Beaumont wrote: > > Here's the basic outline: > > Extract a list of member email addresses. > > /usr/local/mailman/bin/sync_members -g=no -w=no -d=no -a=no -f > file_of_email_addresses list_name_here > > The list is set up so confirmation of subscription is required (and we > never confirm when someone tries). > > We run this process at the top of every hour. Users > subscribe/unsubscribe through our member services profiler, not through > he list itself. > > - -- > > Steve > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHLldpeERILVgMyvARAk1yAJ9zSkdAnh+5yHcO8C2KoEuCM/mtgQCeMq6M > KewzwVXddD6LQh/NtvhXoG4= > =nVUV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/lists%40nabble.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/integrating-mailman-members-list-with-another-database-tf4748873.html#a13579447 Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------ 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