I am managing a few mailing lists which are hosted on a mailman3 instance. None
of these are allowing
self-subscription, but
I have a need to be able to search the membership by association, ie whether
they belong to any of a number of named groups
Currently there does not seem to be any means for attaching a comment field,
tag or such to group members, which would allow
keeping such metadata and using it for searching members. (and no, the email
addresses of members of one or more groups
may not be similar, hence searching by @domain or such will not work)
Also, the group-association info should *not* be exposed externally (ie to the
member in question or any others), which makes
adding the tag/group info as part of the full name impossible.
Is there any way to do this in mailman3?
If not can this be counted as a feature request:
- in mailman3 itself:
+ add a facility that allows storing additional info to each member , either
as a (largish) comment field or an array of tags
++ if tags, it should support managing thousands of them (but each member
is likely to only need a few associated)
+ if tags are used, each list should have its own set of tags (though a means
to designate a list to participate in a global
tag collection might be useful).
- in postorious:
+ allow modifying the comment field, or adding/removing/modifying one or more
tags to each list-member
+ allow searching a group's membership by tags (or substring in the comment
field),
++ following which mass-operations (deletion, setting moderation flags
etc) should be possible based on individual selection of the found fields
mailman3 really only would need to support storing the additional data for each
member, as (at least in my use case) that data is not actually required for
mail forwarding. However, it seems to be desirable to store the info in the
mailman3 database rather than an external system (to reduce chances that these
might get out of sync).
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