[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

[Ankush Sharma]

Thanks. Barry for the detailed explanation. I will surely have a look on
that part as you mentioned.

Thanks,
Ankush Sharma
github.com/black-perl

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg,
> IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA wrote:
>
> >A personalized mailing list will allow mailman users to send personalized
> >emails to all the list members from a common email template.
>
> Almost all the pieces are already there to support mail merging, at least
> as
> a plugin.  There's quite a bit of functionality in place to allow for
> pluggable MTA delivery methods.  Right now, there's only one.  Search
> src/mailman/config/schema.cfg for the [mta]outgoing variable.
>
> We also already do a bit of mixin class composition to implement various
> aspects of the existing personalized delivery machinery.  The proper class
> is
> chosen (based on the default [mta]outgoing value) from the value of
> mlist.personalize.
>
> To support mail merge, we'd need a little more flexibility in composing
> these
> basic bits.  You'd like for individual mailing lists to be able to choose a
> custom delivery mechanism from a set of site-defined choices, for example.
>
> Then a plugin could define a new delivery class which does the database
> lookups and the mail merge into the template at the point where the VERP'd
> message is handed off to the upstream MTA.  You'd register this new
> delivery
> class with the system and them mailing lists could opt into it.
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>