On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Paul Russell wrote: >On 6/25/2004 7:52 AM, Stan Horwitz wrote: >> Paul, I agree. We could definitely use such functionality here. I get >> asked about that type of issue frequently by my management. Primarily for >> us, we want to be able to put the name of the list in the ldap entries for >> a set of users (sort of subscription via ldap) and then send out targetted >> emails. For example, the head of the math department (or a designee) might >> want to send an email to everyone in the math department. It would be nice >> if Listserv could play a role in that functionality. > >I would like to see LDAP support added to LISTSERV, but you do not need LDAP >support in LISTSERV to do what you described. Query the directory to get the >email addresses from entries which match your criteria, then build and submit >a LISTSERV DISTRIBUTE job. The whole thing can be scripted and hidden behind >a web page. This is a general solution that could be used with any type of >database, not just an LDAP directory, without the need to make any >LISTSERV-specific changes to the directory/database. The trouble is that my management is all ga ga over LDAP and that's what they want to use.