http://localhost/ticket/1710 <p> We want to make email announcements to users of thedatahub.org. </p> <p> The most simple way to do this is to get a dump of the email addresses and subscribe/invite them to a mailman list. </p> <p> Different ways to do it: </p> <ul><li>'paster dump-users-csv' creates a CSV file. Apache serves up the directory using password protection. Is this secure enough? </li><li>CKAN admin pages provides a button to produce the CSV and download it. A config option may be necessary to enable this (disabled by default). </li></ul><p> Something more advanced in the future could be: </p> <ul><li>CKAN tells mailman about new subscribers using the mailman web interface. Could be brittle. </li><li>Mailman doesn't have an Internet API, but it does have a python interface. So CKAN could tell mailman about new subscribers using a python proxy. There may be one out there, or maybe easy to do. But annoying to have to maintain another process running on machine. </li><li>CKAN sends out the emails itself. A sysadmin is given a form. Users have an opt in/out option in their account. But receiving emails is a sensitive thing so it would need to be right first time, and there are several risks to this approach. </li></ul> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1710 Trac 0.12.3 dread Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:40 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1710#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1710#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>cc</strong> <em>rgrp</em> removed </li> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <em>dread</em> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>assigned</em> </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> set to <em>current-ckan-sprint-2012-02-06</em> </li> </ul> <p> Rufus says that the paster command is enough for now. </p> Ticket dread Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:18:42 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1710#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/1710#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>assigned</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Code done in [master 804b549] headed for release </p> <p> Example usage (on the appropriate server): </p> <pre class="wiki">paster db user-dump-csv /tmp/users.csv </pre> Ticket