[TriLUG] Mailman and Scripting

[Jon Carnes]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:15, Scott Lundgren wrote:
> > BTW: you can have Mailman use an SQL database for its config and
> > membership database, so some folks just use the standard Mailman
> > interface for building their membership database.
> >
> 
> Ah, I like this tactic (sending an email) better for the reasons you 
> mentioned. Can you point out some mailman docs/examples about using 
> such a SQL database? Suppose I centralize the membership database on 
> these Mailman tables can i still add some extra columns that would have 
> meaning to my other uses but Mailman would just ignore? Is this not a 
> wise idea to "pollute" the Mailman tables?
> 
> - SL

Wise or not - folks do it. Seems to work fine. BTW: using SQL for the
mailman member info is not yet for the faint of heart, but as the
Beatles used to say: it's getting better all the time.

Jon