[Mailman-Developers] Silly mailman question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

I have a client who wishes to send a bunch of mail.

They're good little boys and girls; the address are all opt-in, to my
personal knowledge.

The problem is that they're already in a database (filePro for Unix on
SCO 5, on a machine behind a Linux 7.1 firewall), and they want to be
able to selectwhom to mail on an adhoc basis.

This seems to suggest to *me* that I need to be able to either 1) set
up and strike lists on the mailman side with some dispatch, or better
2) wire mailman atop the extant database... which I would prefer to do
because I *don't* want to lose the web-based signoff stuff, etc.

I know this is a pretty kettle of fish; anyone have any suggestions?

I'm willing to take a swing at writing a Python module to encompass
filePro if I have to do that, but I'm not sure that's enough here: the
user data isn't *in* a 'database' yet, is it?

This is, of course, a paying gig... and it's not impossible I might sub
out the "interface the back of Mailman to my database" part,
particularly if it can be done generally enough to make accessing
filePro data from Python easy, since that's something I'd find
generically useful.

Cheers,
-- jra
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