Let us assume that a substantial fraction of members of a nationwide mailing list (say about 110 on 1135) have changed domain, i.e.
user@domain1.tld and user@domain2.tld
have now migrated to user@domain2.tld
Is there a way by which the *moderators* (which are sparse in different institutions and have access to the mailing list only via the web interface) can apply a mass edit (changing domain1 and domain2 into domain3) ?
Or can that be done via line-mode commands only by the *administrator* (who has the list server in house) ?
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Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
Is there a way by which the *moderators* (which are sparse in different institutions and have access to the mailing list only via the web interface) can apply a mass edit (changing domain1 and domain2 into domain3) ?
Moderators, i.e. people who have only web access to the list and know only the moderator password, cannot make any membership changes. They can only handle held messages and requests via the admindb interface.
People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.
Or can that be done via line-mode commands only by the *administrator* (who has the list server in house) ?
The server doesn't have to be "in house", but one does need command line access and write permission on the Mailman installation. If one has such access, the script at <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py> can do exactly what you want.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Le 14/11/2012 17:56, Mark Sapiro a écrit :
People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.
can't you:
- extract the list
- edit it in any editor
- mass subscribe with the edited list
- eventually remove the old list (or wait to bounce mechanism to do ità
?
just an idea :-)
jdd
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On 11/14/2012 9:11 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 14/11/2012 17:56, Mark Sapiro a écrit :
People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.
can't you:
- extract the list
- edit it in any editor
- mass subscribe with the edited list
- eventually remove the old list (or wait to bounce mechanism to do ità
Yes, but this is not "directly" changing the member's addresses. It is adding the new addresses and removing the old addresses and in the process reverting all of the users' options to defaults, assigning them a new, random password and possibly sending them goodbye and/or welcome messages.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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