reader_mailman extension

This is a very simple radiant extension that lets your readership populate a mailman mailing lists, opt in and out and set their message-receipt preferences. It will soon include the ability to assign a different list to each reader-group but right now it's just a single global list.

Requirements

The reader extension to provide for your user-management and access-control needs.
A Mailman installation configured to use MySQL for membership data, at least for the lists you want to populate. Note that the database must be set up in the 'wide' configuration, ie. one table per list.

Configuration

We access the mailman table through activerecord using a separate database connection called mailman_#{RAILS_ENV}. Add definitions like these to your database.yml:

mailman_development:
  adapter: mysql2
  database: mailman
  username: somebody
  password: whatever
  host: 127.0.0.1

mailman_production:
  adapter: mysql2
  database: mailman
  username: somebody
  password: whatever
  host: mail.server.com

You store the name of the mailing list (which is also the name of the data table) in:

reader.mailman.list_name

You can do that through the usual reader-settings interface.

Status

New but reasonably simple. The legacy interface involves some subversion of ActiveRecord so bugs are possible there.

Bugs and comments

Issues in github, please, or for little things an email or github message is fine.

Author and copyright

Released under the same terms as Rails and/or Radiant.
Contact will at spanner.org