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Hi,

There a some bits of code here and there to integrate civicrm and mailman and we are getting inspired by them, but need something more complete/complex.

The general idea is that some groups are mailing lists on mailman, and everytime a contact is added/removed to the group, it's sync to mailman. We have a parent group "mailman sync", everyone of the group below is synchronised.

In more detail:

1) A tool to import loads of contacts (a shell) as exported from mailman. We have a test mode, to be able to detect when two contacts have the same email (as we have only the emails out of mailman, we don't know which one to associate), and provide an easy report with direct links to the merge functions to ease the transfer.

2) a hook that flag when the list needs to be generated and synchronised with mailman

3) a shell on cron that checks on a regular basis if there is a list to regenerate

4) a shell that import that on mailman (that might be on a different server).

Right now, that's probably quite specific for our needs, but shouldn't take too long (read: you can afford to sponsor it to make it more generic.

Would it be useful for you ?

Hi,

The least annoying issue was solved on the latest version of civi (the name of the group was changed).

What we have is a system on drupal/civicrm that have a group "mailman", and all the subgroups are synchronised below (eg team, board, members...).

We sync every few minutes with mailman, if there has been a change in one of these groups (we do that in batch to avoid performance issues).

Right now some stuff is hardcoded, we can probably in 8 hours make is "generic hardcoded"+documentation.

I am not sure about the option of being able to choose for each group if it's a mailing list (as you do for ACL or mailing list), we didn't want to go down that road, to avoid having to change the schema.

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