Fw: [Core-lan-org-devel] hello? are the maintainers reading thislist?

[Dennis F. <de...@co...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Fleurbaaij" <de...@co...>
To: "Dave Cridland" <da...@cr...>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Core-lan-org-devel] hello? are the maintainers reading
thislist?


> Hi Dave,
>
> Sure sounds good. If you can code this we atleast have a set of options.
>
> 1) Mailman
> 2) Direct email
> 3) qmail's mailinglist software ?
>
> So that would be very cool. We can implement that in every module.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Cridland" <da...@cr...>
> To: "Dennis Fleurbaaij" <de...@co...>
> Cc: <cor...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 11:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Core-lan-org-devel] hello? are the maintainers reading
> thislist?
>
>
> > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:00, Dennis Fleurbaaij wrote:
> > > > the sort of "obvious" thing to me was that folks in the usergroup
get
> mail
> > > when you changes get made and the "send to mailing list" box is
checked,
> but
> > > there is only one mailing list, the global one.
> > > >
> > > > comments?
> > >
> > > Um, good point. As I've never needed this I've also never thought
about
> it
> > > very much. It really makes sense but I think that mailing all the
group
> > > members would be preferred above maintaining loads of mailinglists.
Any
> > > comment on this would be very welcome!
> >
> > Ah... I might have some PHP code knocking about that'll control a
> > mailman setup, if you're lucky. Let me have a scout about.
> >
> > Quick scout about, and no code ready, but I think I can give you a
> > working set of functions to do it.
> >
> > The only gotcha is changing the aliases in the system MTA. I could put
> > together a setuid perl script to do that, though the world seems divided
> > on whether that's safe. I think they're safe enough, everyone else
> > disagrees. A lesser gotcha is figuring out what MTA is actually in use
> > on the system - lesser because that's install-time and we can really
> > take our time on that.
> >
> > The member addition and removal is very easy, though. (Famous last
> > words).
> >
> > I'll knock a PHP includable together. Dennis, you'd want functional
> > interface, right?
> >
> > I'm thinking:
> >
> > function mailman_create_list( $listname, $admin_user_email_address,
> > $management_key = 'something random' );
> >
> > // Creates the list, invents a random key if one hasn't been supplied.
> > The key's used for remote management, but we bypass it all the time
> > anyway.
> >
> > function mailman_remove_list( $listname );
> >
> > // Removes the list.
> >
> > function mailman_list_add_user( $listname, $email, $quiet = true );
> >
> > // Adds $email to list. $email could be either a single email address
> > (string) or an array of them. If $quiet, we suppress the welcome message
> > you normally get on joining.
> >
> > function mailman_list_remove_user( $listname, $email );
> >
> > // Drops the user(s) from the list.
> >
> > I can knock that up easily enough in a day.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> >
>