Add moderators from the command line
Hi,
In Mailman3 it would be nice to be able to add moderators to a mailing list from the command line using the mailman command. Currently I can only see the possibility to add new members to a mailing list, or did I miss something here?
Regards ML
On Jul 24, 2014, at 02:03 PM, 'ML mail' via barry wrote:
In Mailman3 it would be nice to be able to add moderators to a mailing list from the command line using the mailman command. Currently I can only see the possibility to add new members to a mailing list, or did I miss something here?
You're not missing anything. The CLI for adding members isn't fantastic - you have to provide a file with one member per line. The way to extend this would be to be able to specify the members' role when adding them. I haven't thought of an elegant way to do this via the CLI, especially when multiple members can be added. Once a good interface is designed, it would be pretty easy to write the code to do it.
Cheers, -Barry
Yes, I guess something like a "-m" option would be good to specify that the e-mails being added with the "-a" option are moderators. Right now I have switched to using the REST API as it has all features I need, great work btw!
On Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:20 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@list.org> wrote:
On Jul 24, 2014, at 02:03 PM, 'ML mail' via barry wrote:
In Mailman3 it would be nice to be able to add moderators to a mailing list from the command line using the mailman command. Currently I can only see the possibility to add new members to a mailing list, or did I miss something here?
You're not missing anything. The CLI for adding members isn't fantastic - you have to provide a file with one member per line. The way to extend this would be to be able to specify the members' role when adding them. I haven't thought of an elegant way to do this via the CLI, especially when multiple members can be added. Once a good interface is designed, it would be pretty easy to write the code to do it.
Cheers, -Barry
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:29 PM, ML mail <mlnospam@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
Yes, I guess something like a "-m" option would be good to specify that the e-mails being added with the "-a" option are moderators. Right now I have switched to using the REST API as it has all features I need, great work btw!
On Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:20 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@list.org> wrote:
On Jul 24, 2014, at 02:03 PM, 'ML mail' via barry wrote:
In Mailman3 it would be nice to be able to add moderators to a mailing list from the command line using the mailman command. Currently I can only see the possibility to add new members to a mailing list, or did I miss something here?
You're not missing anything. The CLI for adding members isn't fantastic - you have to provide a file with one member per line. The way to extend this would be to be able to specify the members' role when adding them. I haven't thought of an elegant way to do this via the CLI, especially when multiple members can be added. Once a good interface is designed, it would be pretty easy to write the code to do it.
The CLI I built as part of GSoC 2014 supports the above features
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rajeevs1992/mailman.client/mailmancli
It is based on the REST API.
To Add moderators you can do
./mmclient add-moderator list list@domain.org --user a@b.com b@c.com ...
Similarly to add owners do
./mmclient add-owner list list@domain.org --user a@b.com b@c.com
To add normal members
./mmclient subscribe user user1@bar.com user2@bar.com --list list@domain.org
You might want to install the PLY library [ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ply/3.4] to test the CLI fully.
On Jul 27, 2014, at 03:59 AM, 'ML mail' via barry wrote:
Yes, I guess something like a "-m" option would be good to specify that the e-mails being added with the "-a" option are moderators. Right now I have switched to using the REST API as it has all features I need, great work btw!
Probably a more generic approach would be to add a --role option that would accept any of the MemberRole values, e.g. member (the default), owner, moderator, or nonmember.
I bet it wouldn't be difficult to add this code and a test. Care to take a shot at it?
-Barry
P.S. Very cool that Rajeev's REST CLI handles this already!
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