[Mailman-Users] Question

[Hilton J Ralphs]

Quoting Randy Johnson <rjohnson at paperlesspractice.com>:

> I would like to see it work like this:
> 
> 1.  I download file from CRM software of emails.
> 
> 2.  I upload them or cut an paste to mailman
> 
> 3.  if the email is already in the list it does not add them again and if
> they chose to opt out before it would not add them again as well.
> 
> 4.  Also if the email is bad it would be nice if it would not add it to
> mailman as well.
> 
> Would mailman be able to accommodate the above?

Mailman has a program called sync_members that will do exactly what you 
require. You could get clever and automate the CRM extraction to the same file 
every time, conveniently placed on a share accessible to mailman.

Then set-up a crontab job to sync that file with the mailman database. It will 
remove mailman users that don't appear on the list and add new ones 
accordingly.

Should work to the tee.

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Regards
Hilton