[Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with customer data

2012-06-12 Thread David
I'm reading the following thread from 2004: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-July/037954.html. I would like to solve a similar problem. This thread states: You can use the mailman command-line tools to synchronize against external databases. There are various people on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with customer data

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
David wrote: Can anyone suggest a better way to find examples and more help for syncing Mailman with external customer data? Basically, you have to do the heavy lifting. Mailman's bin/sync_members tool is what you use to actually sync the list's membership with your database, but you first have

[Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with customer data

2004-07-08 Thread Ben M. Swihart
Hello, Mailman basically has a database of e-mail addresses and (optionally) names. Commercial clients of mine find databases like these very useful. However, most of them need a little more data about their customers. NAME ADDRESS E-MAIL PHONE ... Etc... One of the best way to gather this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with customer data

2004-07-08 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:33 PM -0400 2004-07-08, Ben M. Swihart wrote: Mailman basically has a database of e-mail addresses and (optionally) names. Actually, it's not a true database. This information is contained within a Python pickle structure on disk, for each mailing list. All I am trying to accomplish