[Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe links in footers and passwords

[Mark Sapiro]

David Beaumont wrote:

>Firstly is there a way to globally remove passwords for all users on a list.
>They are a pain, users forget them and I trust our users not to need one.


No, you can't remove passwords, but you can set everyone's password to,
for example, a single letter.

You would do this with withlist. The following is an example of a
withlist session that would set everyone's password to the letter p.

bin/withlist -l example
Loading list example (locked)
The variable `m' is the example MailList instance
>>> for member in m.getMembers():
...     m.setMemberPassword(member, 'p')
...                       (at this prompt, type <CR> only)
>>>m.Save()
>>>                       (at this prompt, enter control-D)
Unlocking (but not saving) list: example
Finalizing


Note that there is a more elaborate reset_pw.py withlist script in
Mailman's bin directory. It gives everyone a new, random password. You
could modify it by changing the line

        randompw = Utils.MakeRandomPassword()

to for example

        randompw = 'p'

and run it via

bin/withlist -l -r reset_pw listname


>Secondly and alternatively I notice at the foot of each of the mailman
>developers emails is an 'unsubscribe' link that takes you to your own
>details page in mailman
>
>Eg "Unsubscribe:
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/david%40johmar.com"
>
>How do you get the individuals email address to be included at the end of
>that link?


Set

OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes

in mm_cfg.py

Then in the admin interface set Non-digest options->personalize to Yes
and follow the (Details for personalize) link to see the additional
substitutions that are available when the list is personalized.
	
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