Ren Bucholz wrote:
So I created a modified add_members and swapped this line:
mlist.ApprovedAddMember(userdesc, ack, 0)
with this one:
mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote="Webpage")
Running the new script on the command line generates this:
[me@HOST]$ echo your@email.com | MODIFIED_add_members -r - LISTNAME Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/MODIFIED_add_members", line 255, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/MODIFIED_add_members", line 235, in main addall(mlist, nmembers, 0, send_welcome_msg, s) File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/MODIFIED_add_members", line 135, in addall mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote="Webpage") File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 888, in AddMember raise Errors.MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation
Strangest of all, a confirmation message *is* generated and sent to the email address, but clicking on the confirmation link just sends me to a MM error page. I'm at a loss as to what the problem might be.
The problem is that AddMember generates the pending subscription, the cookie and the confirmation email and then raises Errors.MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation so the caller (generally, Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py) can catch the exception and generate the appropriate response text. The add_members script doesn't catch this exception, so you get the above error. You can just add
except Errors.MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation:
print >> tee, _('Sent Confirmation: %(member)s')or maybe, if you don't actually see this output, just
except Errors.MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation:
passto the excepts following the try: of the AddMember call. You probably want to also handle the Errors.MMNeedApproval exception in case you do this on a list where subscription requires approval.
As to why the confirmation link returned an error, I don't know why this happened. What does Mailman's error log say?
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