Grant Taylor writes: > > What would one use to maintain a contact list, with more than just > > name and email address?
> However this is out side the scope of Mailman and as such Mailman will > likely never store much more than it is. Mailman itself will not, but one goal of MM3 is to provide a standard connector architecture for backend databases which supply at least a name and email address but probably do a lot more than that. People who are interested in this feature should look at the MM3 stuff on the wiki and the MM3 code and documentation, then ask Barry what his plans are. It should not be hard to add further elements to web-based forms (for one example) that feed names and addresses to such a connector. Then Mailman itself would ignore that additional information (absent local extensions), merely providing a single communication channel for list managers to access the backend database. Most of the effort would no doubt go to providing sane error messages in the case where the backend's schema doesn't support the additional fields, and stuff like that. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9