[Mailman-Users] Import Newsletter E-mails first time - How?

[James Radke]

Hello,

We have our customers e-mails in an Microsoft SQL 
database, and we would like to start a newsletter. Is there a way we can 
export the data from SQL to some type of file, and import it into a mailman 
list?

What would be the format of the file and the 
command to do that?

Thanks!

Jim

[Mailman-Users] Tell if a recipient reads the newsletter?

[James Radke]

Hello,

We are hoping to start a newsletter to our 
customers. One of the questions that came up was could we determine if a 
customer actually READ the newsletter. Is there a way to put something in 
a newsletter so that it logs some type of "CUSTOMER READ NEWSLETTER" in a 
database through a web service, or something like that?

Thanks!

Jim

[Mailman-Users] Newbie question - newletter, and importing members?

[James Radke]

Hello,

I am looking at mailman as one possible solution 
for providing a mailing list for up to 10,000 recipients. This would be 
for a client who would like to send a newsletter as well as promotional offers 
to their customers.

First of all, would mailman be a good selection for 
this functionality? We would need to:

1.) Create a list with members from a file provided 
by the client from their database (Microsoft SQL server database), or in flat 
file format to be imported; and then 

2.) Allow only the client to submit "mail" to the 
list?

Finally we would need to:

3.)Allow therecipients to "opt out" of 
receiving any future mailings via automated e-mail request 
handling?

How tough would this be to implement something like 
this? Is most of this standard usage for this application?

Thanks for any and all opinions!

Jim