[Bug 601419] [NEW] Adjust default list configuration on shared servers

Public bug reported: On shared servers, if you are managing tens or hundreds of lists, it can be very time consuming to manually adjust the settings for each new list, to the configuration you like. For example, we have to change 20 settings to get each list to behave as we like. It should be possible to set a default configuration in mailman (for individual shared hosting accounts). One way which could work quite well is if you could make a list "mailman_default_configuration@domain.com" - and when mailman makes a new list, if that default configuration list exists, it copies the settings from that. Or perhaps there are other ways which would work better.. Thanks, Ben ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Adjust default list configuration on shared servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601419 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.

** Description changed: -- Adjust default list configuration on shared servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601419 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.

For Mailman 2.1 you can do something like bin/config_list -o default_config@domain appropriately_configured_list and then edit that to remove list specific settings such as for example real_name, owner, moderator, description, info and subject_prefix. Or, just put your 20 settings in that file. Then after creating a new list, run bin/config_list -i default_config@domain new_list You might be able to modify your list creation process to do this automatically. I realize this is not a complete satisfaction of your request, but nothing more automatic will be added in Mailman 2.1 Mailman 3 will support multiple templates for creating lists. -- Adjust default list configuration on shared servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601419 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.

Thanks, but not any good without root access (Can't access 'bin'...) -- Adjust default list configuration on shared servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601419 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.
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benwiggy
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Mark Sapiro