Way way back in August 2016, we had a problem with submitting too many members via the web interface. As a solution, the following was suggested:
You'd need a custom script to do the 'extra text'. I have added an invite_members script I use at <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/invite_members> and <https://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/invite_members> This can send invitations including the 'extra text'.
We used this script with great success in Aug 2017 and 2018. But this year we've run into a problem. When I submit the script it appears to hang waiting for some kind of lock. I can see this when I eventually CTRL-C out.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mladmin/Util/invite_members", line 236, in ?
main()
File "/home/mladmin/Util/invite_members", line 197, in main
mlist = MailList.MailList(listname)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 129, in
__init__
self.Lock()
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 162, in
Lock
self.__lock.lock(timeout)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 312, in
lock
self.__sleep()
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 496, in
__sleep
time.sleep(interval)
KeyboardInterruptIn the past we've used the script from a non-priv'd account with no problems. When it failed this time, I tried running it as 'mailman' but it still hangs on the lock. Any suggestions? (BTW, the line numbers will be different from the original script because of some debug print statements and additional comments added.)
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