Hi all,

Here is a patch for the add_members command-line utility that adds support for inviting users and specifying pre-generated passwords:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1765041&group_id=103&atid=300103 http://files.mehnle.net/software/mailman/mailman-add_members:passwords-input...

If you specify a "--invite-only" option, the users are invited instead of being subscribed right away.

You can also specify pre-generated passwords as the last "word" (of non- whitespace characters) in address list files. For example:

John Doe john.doe@example.com PaSsWoRd jane.doe@example.org pAsSwOrD user.with.autogen.password@example.net

Consider the patch as being in the public domain.

I'd be happy if these features could make it into one of the next Mailman releases. I was missing them so hard, I actually sat down and started learning Python (I mostly just write Perl otherwise).

Julian.