Thanks Mark,
There are 2 admins on there.. 1 person is on All of them, and the person who left is on about half of them.
Which method would be best suited for that scenario? Also, is any of the script destructive to the lists themselves? Ie, if it didn't run right or something it wouldn't affect the list accepting emails to it, or blowing away the rest of the list config?
Cheers
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 3:29 PM To: Spyro Polymiadis; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing admin email addresses
Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
We just have had one of our IT guys leave our company, and I was
wondering if there was an easy (bulk, cli) way to remove/change the email address from the "List of Administrators" (2nd text box in General Options)
There are a couple of ways to do this. If the owners of all lists are the same, e.g. owner1@example.com, owner2@example.com and owner3@example.com, and you just want to remove owner2 from the list leaving the other 2, you can prepare a file containing the lines
owner = ['owner1@example.com', 'owner3@example.com' ]
and run
#!/bin/bash cd /path/to/mailman for list in
bin/list_lists --baredo bin/config_list -i path/to/file/above $list doneIf the owner lists are different and you just want to remove ownerx@example.com from all lists in which it is an owner, you can put the following script in Mailman's bin directory, naming it del_owner.py
def del_owner(mlist): if not mlist.Locked(): mlist.Lock() try: mlist.owner.remove('ownerx@example.com') print 'ownerx@example.com removed from %s' % mlist.real_name except ValueError: print 'ownerx@example.com not owner of %s' % mlist.real_name if not mlist.owner: print 'list %s has no owners' % mlist.real_name mlist.Save() mlist.Unlock()
After saving the above as bin/del_owner.py, run
bin/withlist -a -r del_owner
Note that the file name is del_owner.py, but there is no .py in either the withlist command or the function def.
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