Re: [Mailman-Users] User management via email?

On 8/3/11 2:35 PM, Chase, Edward wrote:

I thought that I had done this task as part of my initial testing, but I cannot find that I documented that at all. My Google-fu is coming up very empty on the subject. I've found a number of people asking the same question with few replies. The best I found was a *dated* web page that states that user management is only possible via the web interface.

Is it possible to do user management via email at this time?

Have you checked into $LOCALBASE/mailman/bin/add_members? You could probably wrap a script around it easily enough.

usage:

/usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members Add members to a list from the command line.

Usage: add_members [options] listname

Options:

--regular-members-file=file
-r file
    A file containing addresses of the members to be added, one
    address per line.  This list of people become non-digest
    members.  If file is `-', read addresses from stdin.  Note that
    -n/--non-digest-members-file are deprecated synonyms for this

option.

--digest-members-file=file
-d file
    Similar to above, but these people become digest members.

--welcome-msg=<y|n>
-w <y|n>
    Set whether or not to send the list members a welcome message,
    overriding whatever the list's `send_welcome_msg' setting is.

--admin-notify=<y|n>
-a <y|n>
    Set whether or not to send the list administrators a notification on
    the success/failure of these subscriptions, overriding whatever the
    list's `admin_notify_mchanges' setting is.

--help
-h
    Print this help message and exit.

listname
    The name of the Mailman list you are adding members to.  It must
    already exist.

You must supply at least one of -r and -d options. At most one of the files can be `-'.

Best, --Glenn