[Mailman-Users] mailman plugin support?
Is there any sort of plugin support possible for mailman? I have an interesting scenario where the end-user wants to be able to subscribe users to a sort of mailing list, where once a week for birthdays and anniversaries, a cron-job generates a list of people who are due the week following, and either prints (for snail mail) or e-mails them a coupon. Obviously their database will contain more info than name, password, and e-mail. I'm pondering some sort of man-in-the-middle approach that captures the form input from the web, and passes the appropriate details to mailman, but it would be nice if there were an easier way to more tightly integrate it with the list manager rather than merely using mailman as an ancillary, although I'm not 100% certain of how appropos it would be. Any insights would be appreciated. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] mailman setup for vhosts
I have a website client that would like a push-only mailing list that his customers can subscribe to to receive announcements of special sales and new products, and trade show schedules. His website, however, is hosted on an ISP (running FreeBSD) who vhosts many different other sites. In the Features page, I don't really see any specific mention of whether mailman would handle a server with many different vhosted sites. Obviously one would like the clients to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves via a web-interface, but how to provide a link to the client-side-admin page within the vhosted domain would be one question. Also I'm sure the ISP themselves would have questions regarding how this may affect their other vhosted sites. Can anyone provide me with some information and explanation of these issues? I'd be most grateful. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman setup for vhosts
Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:58 PM +0100 2004-06-14, Richard Barrett wrote: Can anyone provide me with some information and explanation of these issues? I'd be most grateful. This recent post discusses some relevant issues: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037415.html Okay, I've tried to tie these two threads together with the FAQ entry at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.047.htp. Please let me know if you think there need to be any changes made, or feel free to make them yourself. It seems to me that this is an enormous amount of work to enable a mailing list for a single vhosted client (with only the possibility of the other vhosted clients using this solution for their websites). -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman setup for vhosts
Brad Knowles wrote: At 1:03 PM -0400 2004-06-14, Scott R. Godin wrote: It seems to me that this is an enormous amount of work to enable a mailing list for a single vhosted client (with only the possibility of the other vhosted clients using this solution for their websites). If there's only one account on the system who is making use of Mailman, then there shouldn't be a problem. You could either install Mailman under the account of the of the single user (assuming the hosting provider allows this), or you can take the risk that the single system-wide installation will only be used by the one customer, and that no one else will try to use the same installation to host another list by the same name under a different domain. If I were to install this for the single-user, how would it handle the aliases file ? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] Re: Question regarding certain list properties
Scott R. Godin wrote: In between sending this and responding to the list manager it seems I got temporarily refused to allow to post this, so on the off chance that it actually did not make it to the list, I'm re-sending it. Apologies if this actually DID manage to get posted twice, and thanks for all replies. I have a client whom I am doing a website for. The hosting provider has no list management software installed (they run FreeBSD), but has given me the tentative OK to suggest a package if I can find one that suits my needs, and which they will install. First question is, If necessary, can it be installed and run solely from my client's $HOME if necessary, thus making the entire list package only available to my website client? If not, one presumes that vhosting clients can be enabled on an as-needed basis by the hosting provider. Secondly, my clients particular needs are small, but his wants are many: o he wants to be able to post messages that every subscribed user receives (non-digested) immediately. (basically sales promotional, and new product announcements. that's it.) probably between one and five per month. o no subscribed users will be allowed to post back to the _list_, only to the reply address (which will be my client's [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, more or less). any attempts by a subscriber to post to the list will be sent to the list owner's address instead and will NOT be seen by the other members of the list. o no subscriber on the list will see another subscriber's e-mail address in any mail received from the list (i.e. in CC: or whatever). o subscription will initially be via a web-based form, which will send a confirmation e-mail to the address supplied, and require a response from the end user to the effect of yes this is me and I want to be subscribed before adding them to the list. o any further list interaction by the subscriber will be via _e-mail only_ to subscribe/unsubscribe/temporary-disable-and-reenable themselves to/from the list. No additional web-interface is required. o the list itself will be text-only. no html. Would all these options be configurable for a single vhosted client of a hosting-provider's server? How much of this will the hosting provider have to configure for us, and How much of it will we have to/be able to configure ourselves once we've been set up by the provider? Very interested in seeing discussion on this. This is my first foray into list management as a website kinda guy, so I'm totally unaware of what to expect and don't want to presume too much, so if my questions seem excessive, I plead utter complete spastic ignorance. For the most part, FAQ's rarely ever answer any of the questions *I* usually have, and I go read them later (although I've already looked and confirmed that they do not contain these answers, or else I misunderstood) I run red hat/fedora core at home and since this is bundled with Mailman, I figured you guys would be a good place to start my search for a list manager since I can play with it at home to test things. I look forward to your replies and hope my search ends here. :) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] Question regarding certain list properties
I have a client whom I am doing a website for. The hosting provider has no list management software installed (they run FreeBSD), but has given me the tentative OK to suggest a package if I can find one that suits my needs, and which they will install. First question is, If necessary, can it be installed and run solely from my client's $HOME if necessary, thus making the entire list package only available to my website client? If not, one presumes that vhosting clients can be enabled on an as-needed basis by the hosting provider. Secondly, my clients particular needs are small, but his wants are many: o he wants to be able to post messages that every subscribed user receives (non-digested) immediately. (basically sales promotional, and new product announcements. that's it.) probably between one and five per month. o no subscribed users will be allowed to post back to the _list_, only to the reply address (which will be my client's [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, more or less). any attempts by a subscriber to post to the list will be sent to the list owner's address instead and will NOT be seen by the other members of the list. o no subscriber on the list will see another subscriber's e-mail address in any mail received from the list (i.e. in CC: or whatever). o subscription will initially be via a web-based form, which will send a confirmation e-mail to the address supplied, and require a response from the end user to the effect of yes this is me and I want to be subscribed before adding them to the list. o any further list interaction by the subscriber will be via _e-mail only_ to subscribe/unsubscribe/temporary-disable-and-reenable themselves to/from the list. No additional web-interface is required. o the list itself will be text-only. no html. Would all these options be configurable for a single vhosted client of a hosting-provider's server? How much of this will the hosting provider have to configure for us, and How much of it will we have to/be able to configure ourselves once we've been set up by the provider? Very interested in seeing discussion on this. This is my first foray into list management as a website kinda guy, so I'm totally unaware of what to expect and don't want to presume too much, so if my questions seem excessive, I plead utter complete spastic ignorance. For the most part, FAQ's rarely ever answer any of the questions *I* usually have, and I go read them later (although I've already looked and confirmed that they do not contain these answers, or else I misunderstood) I run red hat/fedora core at home and since this is bundled with Mailman, I figured you guys would be a good place to start my search for a list manager since I can play with it at home to test things. I look forward to your replies and hope my search ends here. :) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
