A couple of functions it would be nice to have from the command line
I moderate a mailman installation at http://www.strategicnetwork.org that has over 120,000 subscribers to various lists. Here are some functions that would be nice:'
- the ability to add a new subscription to a given list without importing a text file. Right now it seems to be impossible to add a single address to a single list in the same way you can remove an address. This would be useful for adding a one-off email address change.
adduser -l /list/thelist johndoe@gmail.com
- the ability to change an email address en masse in all lists. At least once or twice a month I have people who write in who want to have their email address changed and they aren't technically minded enough to do this on their own. As a customer service issue it would be nice to simply accomodate them, e.g.
changeuser johndoe@gmail.com johndoe@smith.com
Cordially, Justin Long
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Justin Long wrote:
I moderate a mailman installation at http://www.strategicnetwork.org that has over 120,000 subscribers to various lists. Here are some functions that would be nice:'
- the ability to add a new subscription to a given list without importing a text file. Right now it seems to be impossible to add a single address to a single list in the same way you can remove an address. This would be useful for adding a one-off email address change.
adduser -l /list/thelist johndoe@gmail.com
add_members -r- listname foo@example.org ^d
- the ability to change an email address en masse in all lists. At least once or twice a month I have people who write in who want to have their email address changed and they aren't technically minded enough to do this on their own. As a customer service issue it would be nice to simply accomodate them, e.g.
changeuser johndoe@gmail.com johndoe@smith.com
clone_member -r old@example.org new@example.org
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Thanks. Guess I should investigate some of these functions a little more closely! I appreciate the quick feedback from the community.
Another method for adding a single address that I received was echo 'johndoe@gmail.com' | add_members -r - listname
Wouldn't it be nice to simply add this as a function somehow to the existing add_members routine? :)
Cordially, Justin Long
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Adam McGreggor adam-mailman@amyl.org.ukwrote:
I moderate a mailman installation at http://www.strategicnetwork.orgthat has over 120,000 subscribers to various lists. Here are some functions
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Justin Long wrote: that
would be nice:'
- the ability to add a new subscription to a given list without importing a text file. Right now it seems to be impossible to add a single address to a single list in the same way you can remove an address. This would be useful for adding a one-off email address change.
adduser -l /list/thelist johndoe@gmail.com
add_members -r- listname foo@example.org ^d
- the ability to change an email address en masse in all lists. At least once or twice a month I have people who write in who want to have their email address changed and they aren't technically minded enough to do this on their own. As a customer service issue it would be nice to simply accomodate them, e.g.
changeuser johndoe@gmail.com johndoe@smith.com
clone_member -r old@example.org new@example.org
-- ``Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than sitting in a garage makes you a car.'' (spotted in Strasbourg)
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-- Justin D. Long Swarming: building high-impact decentralized networks to reach the unreached Through: 1-day Swarm Schools, multiday Swarm Labs, yearlong Swarm Coaching
Email justinlong@gmail.com Skype nsmjustinlong OR call/SMS 757-559-1515 http://www.strategicnetwork.org - magazine, e-groups, knowledgebase http://www.google.com/reader/shared/justinlong - shared annotated bloglinks http://www.twitter.com/nsmjustinlong - daily activities, swarming notes http://www.facebook.com/justindavidlong - Facebook page http://www.accessofevil.org - if a demon could blog, it might look like this
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Justin Long wrote:
- the ability to add a new subscription to a given list without importing a text file. Right now it seems to be impossible to add a single address to a single list in the same way you can remove an address. This would be useful for adding a one-off email address change.
adduser -l /list/thelist johndoe@gmail.com
It's awkward, but
echo johndoe@gmail.com | bin/add_members -r - thelist
will do it or you could make an adduser shell script to parse your arguments and call add_members appropriately
- the ability to change an email address en masse in all lists. At least once or twice a month I have people who write in who want to have their email address changed and they aren't technically minded enough to do this on their own. As a customer service issue it would be nice to simply accomodate them, e.g.
changeuser johndoe@gmail.com johndoe@smith.com
See http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py
-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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