Re: [Mailman-Users] How to send messages out to only a portion of the members?
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > First of all, a note of thanks to Mark Sapiro for his wonderful command of > the mailman SW, _and_ for his great replies. Only > those who have read messages on other lists by other experts can appreciate > how elegantly and enlightenlingly Mr Sapiro formulates his answers. > That's because he is synonymous with Mailman:-) > > That duty done, to my question: I should like to be able to send messages > to a selected partion of a membership and automate > this procedure if possible. Example: to send members whose dues elapse in > month N a reminder in month N - 1. I am thinking: > a database of members, paralleling the one kept by mailman, but with e.g. > subscription information kept in it. > > You can do it if you have the database of addresses, but this is not a job for mailman, because some calculation is required. I could be wrong. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] How to send messages out to only a portion of the members?
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: > That duty done, to my question: I should like to be able to > send messages to a selected partion of a membership and automate > this procedure if possible. Example: to send members whose > dues elapse in month N a reminder in month N - 1. I am thinking: > a database of members, paralleling the one kept by mailman, but > with e.g. subscription information kept in it. > One suggestion would be to use "Topics" - put everybody in a topic group depending on when their dues lapse, and use that topic when you send out dues notices. -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomblin http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] How to send messages out to only a portion of the members?
Assembled Wisdom! First of all, a note of thanks to Mark Sapiro for his wonderful command of the mailman SW, _and_ for his great replies. Only those who have read messages on other lists by other experts can appreciate how elegantly and enlightenlingly Mr Sapiro formulates his answers. That duty done, to my question: I should like to be able to send messages to a selected partion of a membership and automate this procedure if possible. Example: to send members whose dues elapse in month N a reminder in month N - 1. I am thinking: a database of members, paralleling the one kept by mailman, but with e.g. subscription information kept in it. How can this be achieved in mailman? TIA for anticipated help. Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.(Thomas Browne) -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
