Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, March 07, 2008 4:31 PM -0800 Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
I changed the last part. Take a look. Note that sitelist.cfg is irrelevant. It is intended to be used as input to bin/config_list to configure the site list ('mailman' list) more appropriately than the default settings. It has no actual effect on any list unless you run bin/config_list on that list with sitelist.cfg as input.
The new text says to change generic_nonmember_action but not where to change it.
Privacy options -> Sender filters
I see it in /var/lib/mailman/data/sitelist.cfg which I believe is site-wide and probably suffers the same issue.
As I tried to point out in what you quote above, data/sitelist.cfg has absolutely no effect on anything unless you run bin/config_list on a particular list with that file as input.
I haven't yet found it in the web interface. (It might be nice if the web interface included an "all settings" page, or at least an index of settings so one could then go to the specific page with that setting.)
Yes, there should be a TOC or index in the docs for all settings, and having it on a page in the web interface is a good idea too.
Ideally I should be able to change it in a text file or otherwise with a shell utility, so that I can bulk-change the setting in all lists I manage with a script.
You can do the following to set generic_nonmember_action to discard for every list:
#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/mailman/bin
f=mktemp
echo generic_nonmember_action = 3 > $f
for list in ./list_lists --bare
do ./config-list -i $f $list
done
rm $f
I.e. you can configure a list with text input to config_list containing only those settings you want to change.
Maybe you can come up with some good text to add to the wiki page.
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