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I'm having some trouble in interacting with preferences as they are exposed via Mailman's REST API. As I understand from the documentation, preferences have various "fallbacks" so a value is always available even if it is not present for an upper level. This goes as: member -> address -> user -> system.

Onwards to the problem: To change a value in the preferences of a membership.

It would seem that the membership preferences (accessible via "/members/id/all/preferences") are set as read-only. So when I do this:

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requests.patch(url, data={'delivery_mode': "digest"}, auth=auth)

It returns 405. Although we can modify "delivery_mode" if we access "/members/id/preferences".

So how do I change those other values? I can try and convert them on the Address, or the User, but those are not specific enough. Something like Address would change them for *all* the subscriptions on that email address, which is not the goal here.

And maybe I'm missing something, but it would also seem that changing them on a address would be pointless if we have a membership, since, as the docs say, precedence is given to the membership preferences (which can't be modified).

So, why are membership preferences read-only and is there anything I can do about that?

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