What would be the easiest way to do this? An external script that runs nightly and uses Discourse’s API? Or is there a plugin that exists already? Thanks.

You are describing what is probably the worst solution to your problem. Can you take a step back and define the problem? What’s maintaining the list? DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) is a likely solution, though there could be others.

I love the bluntness of computer people :slight_smile: I was considering trying out Mirroring a read-only mailing list in Discourse with a private mailing list and therefore a private Discourse category.

[image] pfaffman: You are describing what is probably the worst solution to your problem. What would be the best way? Or even a slightly better way? If people on the list prefer the forum’s private category then it’s a win for Discourse.

If you don’t have those users managed in some external application then you could do something like this: def load_csv(path) CSV.parse(File.read(path), headers: true) end def update_group g=Group.find(43) #whatever group ID yo uwant GroupUser.where(group_id: g.id).destroy_all us…

Thanks for this. [image] pfaffman: automatically adds a user to the group if they post in the category The category would only be visible to members of the group so there would be a chicken and egg scenario here! I’m fairly accustomed to PHP so think I could write a script that takes the em…

[image] Jonathan5: The category would only be visible to members of the group so there would be a chicken and egg scenario here! Yes, but I was thinking that you’d be importing data to the list some other way. You could also make the group allow requests and have discourse handle that.

[image] Jonathan5: fairly accustomed to PHP so think I could write a script I hate php, so your solution is sounding worse! :joy: But the discourse api is pretty easy to figure out, so I think your solution is sounding like the right one for you! If mailman has hooks, you could have it make…

There’s a category setting called something like “… Mirrors a list” that might also be helpful.

Synchroniser l'appartenance aux groupes avec une liste externe d'adresses e-mail

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) Juillet 9, 2021, 10:40 9

Il existe un paramètre de catégorie intitulé quelque chose comme « … Miroir d’une liste » qui pourrait également être utile.

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