I have Mailman set up and working, for several mailing lists. On one of them, the mailing list is part of a website which has a form you can fill out. You can put in your name, e-maill address, what you're interested in, etc. One of the items on the form is a checkbox, "Subscribe me to the listserve". I'm trying to get this checkbox to work.
The CGI is coded in PHP and Perl. I have tried various ways of automatically subscribing someone to the Mailman listserve in question, but so far I haven't been able to figure it out. I have had PHP do the command line "bin/add_members", and nothing seems to happen. The other thing that I have encountered is of course "Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", blah blah blah". I realize this is a safety feature, so that my listserve isn't hacked. But now, it is me doing the hacking, and I want to allow it! My Web Hosting ISP runs the Mailman installation thru CPanel, and won't let me recompile Mailman or anything drastic like that. Any ideas on how I can easily accomplish what I want to do? Some kind of Mailman "API" that will let me add and remove members from another process? This would come in handy in several other ways. I would also like to have columns in my MySQL membership database about which listserves the member is subscribed to, some way of automatically keeping that up-to-date. Also, I don't seem to have stumbled across a "Newsgroups <--> Mailman" gateway. Did I just overlook that? stv ------------------------------------------------------ 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
