I don't know if any of that is available in the current product, but it is certainly doable.

I would consider hiring a PHP developer to create a process to run on your Listserv host. That way it can read ALL of the configuration files to determine what is appropriate to display to the requestor, insiders get all lists, outsiders get only public lists. Then the check box would just invoke a pre-fill mailto: and let the requestor's system defined email client take over.

Queries about a user would need to do the same emailaddress/password validation that Listserv currently uses., But then it is just search the lists for the subscriber.


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From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sevick, Robert S.
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:07
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LSTSRV-L] Help with Listserv frontend development?

Hello,

After consulting with Listserv support, they suggested I ask these forums my questions so here goes.
We are considering / investigating a web front end and customizations to Listserv to provide our entire staff easy access to a subset of our Listserv lists (to opt-in or opt-out) that would make it easy to use and cool/edgy.

We aren't finding much that would make interactive queries possible so that the web site would provide:

-          All (or a subset of) lists that the user could subscribe to (with a description of each list)

-          Current list subscriptions for a user

-          An easy way to subscribe or unsubscribe to a list (like with a checkbox button next to the list name)

See an example below we found on the web we'd like to replicate/customize internally.

One problem we see is getting interactive / timely (1-2 sec or less) responses from Listserv to determine if someone is a member of a list or not to check the "Already subscribed" button.

Some questions we came up with are:

-          Would reconfiguring/setting up Listserv to use DBMS (SQL) and querying SQL directly solve this?

-          If we setup a separate SQL database that this website would query directly, what would the best way to keep that database populated with current list memberships (like a script that would run several times a day to update the database)?

-          Has anyone done this before and could provide some guidance, examples, code, etc.?

We also attempted to use TCPGUI and compiling lcmdx.c to query Listserv but it seems very limited.


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Thanks for any help / guidance here.  Appreciate it!

Rob Sevick
Active Directory, Messaging and VMware Administrator
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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