Thanks Francoise.

Here is the problem we are working on.  We currently have a mailing
system that is implemented with listserv.  We now need to add additional
"user profile" information that not only affects this system, but we
need to have across all of the various systems we have for sending mails
(not everything goes via our listserv).

We want to have ONE place that our email recipients can go to manage
their email information (opt-in/out of various emails types, etc).  The
decision so far is to NOT have this done via a listserv, but rather a
Web site that would mange this user information, and then have this
information available to any other application via a web service.  The
reason for this is that most of the user information is already handled
via this system, and they simply want to extend what they can manage
there to have ONE central repository.

I wanted to know what capabilities existed in the listserv/maestro world
to handle this type of centralized email repository.  From what you
indicate, I need to take a closer look at the Maestro system to see what
is offered via the Web Pages.

Thanks for the info!
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Francoise Becker
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question about programmability (using Web service from
inside listserve or listserv maestro)


On 25 Jul 2005 at 12:00, Gartner, James <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Do you know if you can program inside the listserv to access a web
> service to get lists of email addresses to send to, rather than
keeping
> the lists inside the listserv itself?
> We are going to have a web service to hanlde email addresses for
> opt-in/out for various email types, and for particular types that we
use
> the listserv for, we'd like the listserv to get those addresses from
the
> web service rather than having them defined inside the listserv
itself.
> 
> In general, can you write code for custom actions inside the Maestro
or
> listserv front end tool?

It's not completely clear to me what you are looking for. Do you 
already have a web service for collecting the subscriber data or are 
you planning on writing it? If the latter, then why not just use 
LISTSERV Maestro which has exactly that? The Web pages for collecting 
the data are created for you automatically by Maestro (you can 
customize them if desired). The collected data is easy to download or 
else access directly (read-only) using SQL.

If you already have a Web service, which web service is it, and how 
does it work? LISTSERV and LISTSERV Maestro can both draw recipient 
data (read-only) from other databases.

-- 
Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>

Knowledge is just a click away: http://www.lsoft.com/optin.html


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