Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Thank you for the thorough and thoughtful response. I really thought as much, but wanted to check with the experts--you certainly all seem very knowledgeable and I appreciate your insights. Rasa On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 04/05/09 08:07, Rasa Isaacson wrote: > >> Our

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 8, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mailman itself will not, but one goal of MM3 is to provide a standard connector architecture for backend databases which supply at least a name and email address but probably do a lot more than

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Grant Taylor writes: > > What would one use to maintain a contact list, with more than just > > name and email address? > However this is out side the scope of Mailman and as such Mailman will > likely never store much more than it is. Mailman itself will not, but one goal of MM3 is to pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

On 04/07/09 10:02, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: As I collect incoming emails and then contact information, demographics associated with those sending me email, I'd like to have that other information accessible, not just their email and name. Ok... What would one use to maintain

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

On 04/07/09 10:10, Adam McGreggor wrote: I'm not entirely convinced of the need to add both addresses (personal & functional/positional) as list-members: I'd be more inclined to add the address to which you wish to send (the positional, yes?) as list-members, and add their "real" email address

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Grant Taylor wrote: > >Ok... Now you are starting to make me think that there are places in >the Mailman code that will look for custom code (in a separate file that >is called if it exists?) that can be executed to do things like this. >Is this the case? Yes. See the FAQ at

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:42:06AM -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > Now, if you are just wanting your board members to be able to send with > either their personal addresses -OR- their positional addresses all you > need to do is add both addresses to the mailing list (and set one to not > receive e

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Grant: Your post reminds me of something I'd like to set up. As I collect incoming emails and then contact information, demographics associated with those sending me email, I'd like to have that other information accessible, not just their email and name. What would one use to maintain a cont

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

On 04/07/09 02:49, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: This could be done in a custom Handler. I haven't worked on such a thing in a long while, but somebody who's familiar with the email package could probably work a simple one up in less than an hour. Loop over the from addresses, and in that loop,

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

On 04/05/09 08:07, Rasa Isaacson wrote: Our organization wants to set up a mailing list in a very generic fashion. We would like to list the board members as approved members using the generic emails we have set up: So you are wanting to use ""positional addresses, not personal addresses (wi

[Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Rasa Isaacson writes: > Is there something analogous in mailman to associate a personal email > account with the generic account on incoming posts to the board? Like an > alias, but looking at the "From:" field and translating it to the generic > account like presid...@ourwebsite.org. This co

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

on 4/5/09 8:07 AM, Rasa Isaacson said: Is there something analogous in mailman to associate a personal email account with the generic account on incoming posts to the board? Like an alias, but looking at the "From:" field and translating it to the generic account like presid...@ourwebsite.org.

[Mailman-Users] setting up the mailing list

Our organization wants to set up a mailing list in a very generic fashion. We would like to list the board members as approved members using the generic emails we have set up: presid...@ourwebsite.org vicepresid...@outwebsite.org etc... We have a forwarder set up through our website (hosted by Lun