I've got a relatively simple web requirement that I
haven't been able to find a solution for. I need some web software that
lets multiple (authenticated) users manage e-mail and snail-mail
addresses. These users would simply enter and update the addresses and
allow them to belong to multiple groups. I would then write scripts to
extract the e-mail addresses for each group and fire them into mailman - the
users would not use mailman themselves for this list since the majority of them
would not know how. I'd also need to generate mailing labels for the
users. This will definitely not be used for spam - I run the webserver
(currently Red Hat Linux 7.1) for a 2 non-profit societies.
The part I haven't found is a simple mechanism for
maintaining the address list online. I have total control over the server
since it's mine. I've thought of using ldap, but I've never set up an ldap
server before and don't know how hard it is to drive one but I think that this
would allow members to e-mail each other fairly easily by pointing their mailers
at my ldap server.
Any thoughts on how to approach this would be
greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
.../Ed
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