RE: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line

7 May 2004


      Jim,
Thankyou, the code you have put forward makes sense and is what I
wanted. After making a few small mods, it's now doing what I want. I
have also found some other good examples of 'withlist' usage which
helped.
One further question though :), the permissions on most of Mailman's
files on the system in /var/mailman are owned by root with gid of
mailman, mask 0744. My question is, if I do not want to run my scripts
as root, is it fine for me to modify the permissions on these files, or
is this likely to cause unexpected results for the web front end/system
python scripts? Even if I add users to the mailman group, they are
unlikely to have full access to the mailman databases etc.
Thanks & Regards
Geoff
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:jwt@onjapan.net]
Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 12:57 PM
To: Geoff Powell
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
On May 6, 2004, at 17:25, Geoff Powell wrote:
...
Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a
command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user
on a mailing
list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the
utilities appear
to be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions?
You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.
$ bin/withlist -l -i mylist
m.setDeliveryStatus('user@domain.com', MailList.MemberAdaptor.BYADMIN)
m.Save()
{ctrl-D}
If this is the sort of thing you are going to do often, you should
create a little Python script to remember the messy bits and
save some
typing.  You could create  a file called nomail.py containing:
from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError
from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYADMIN
def nomail(m, addr):
try:
m.setDeliveryStatus(addr, BYADMIN)
m.Save()
except NotAMemberError:
print 'No address matched:', addr
Then to disable someone, do (either explicitly or with a script or
alias):
$ bin/withlist -l -r nomail mylist user@domain.com
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