Extension:Mailman

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Mailman Release status: unknown
Implementation	Tag
Description	Creates a mailman subscribe form
Author(s)	User:Mohrr
License	No license specified
Download	see below
check usage (experimental)

Mailman is a very simple extension that creates a mailman subscribe form.

If you're looking for a mass emailer built into the wiki try Extension:STSGMassMailer.

Usage:

<mailman>/relative/url/to/list/recruiting/page</mailman>

For my site, I used the following:

<mailman>/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe/recruiting</mailman>

• /cgi-bin/mailman/ is the path to my Mailman installation (through Apache aliases and such)
• subscribe is the action Mailman is to perform
• recruiting is the list name

This will probably work with any other mailing list software that you can sign up for online, as long as the email gets passed through HTTP POST to the script in the email field. Or, you can make minor edits as you wish.

Anyway, create this file in your MediaWiki extensions folder:

 # extensions/mailman.php
 
 <?php
 
 $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfMailmanExtension"; 
 
 function wfMailmanExtension() {
     global $wgParser;
     $wgParser->setHook( "mailman", "printMailmanForm" );
 }
 
 function printMailmanForm( $input, $argv ) {
 
     global $wgParser;
     $wgParser->disableCache(); 
 
     $output = "<form action=\"$input\" method=\"post\">".
       "<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" />".
       "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\">".
       "</form>";
     return $output;
 }
 
 ?>

Then add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("extensions/mailman.php");