Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Creation/deletion of
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Date: 05/09/2001 3:23 PM From: Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> To: barry@digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw), "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> Cc: mailman-developers@python.org
The list creation message is always sent currently. Does it make sense to be able to inhibit that?
Yes. I currently manually go in and fix some things that just can't be set from defaults easily before letting the admin know. Ideally I'd like a button for "(re)send list creation message now", because what I do is run newlist, hit ctl-z, go off and make my changes, fg it, and let it send the list message...
FWIW I do sort of the same thing. I have hacked newlist to accept another option as described below.
[mailman@mail riders_connection]$ ./bin/newlist
--help
Create a new, unpopulated mailing list.
Usage: %(PROGRAM)s [options] listname listadmin-addr admin-password
Options:
-q
--quiet
Normally the administrator is notified by email(after a prompt) that their list has been created. This option suppresses that notification and the prompting.
-s file
--saveemail=file
Append the email that is sent to the administratorof the new list to file. This is in addition to sending the email to the administrator unless -q is used.
-o file
--output=file
Append the alias setting recommendations to file, inaddition to printing them to standard output.
-h/--help
Print this help text and exit.You can specify as many of the arguments as you want on the command line: you will be prompted for the missing ones.
Note that listnames are forced to lowercase.
[mailman@mail riders_connection]$
a patch for this against 2.0.3 is attached if anyone is interested.
-Ben