id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	repo	theme
1710	'Announce' email list for thedatahub	dread	dread	"We want to make email announcements to users of thedatahub.org.

The most simple way to do this is to get a dump of the email addresses and subscribe/invite them to a mailman list.

Different ways to do it:
 * 'paster dump-users-csv' creates a CSV file. Apache serves up the directory using password protection. Is this secure enough?
 * 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).

Something more advanced in the future could be:
 * CKAN tells mailman about new subscribers using the mailman web interface. Could be brittle.
 * 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.
 * 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.
"	enhancement	closed	major	ckan-sprint-2012-02-06	ckan	fixed		markw	ckan	none