At 11:28 AM -0500 2003/07/07, Duncan McQueen wrote:

Is there a way to remove a user from a list without logging onto the web-interface? On our site, the web-server is limited to intranet users only, but the list is sent out to people all over the world. I want to automate their removal, but I have tried sending an email saying 'unsubscribe [email-address]' and nothing happened.

I don't understand why you'd restrict your web access to 

intranet-only users while allowing your mailing list to be distributed globally. IMO, they should both be available only to the same sets of users.

Nevertheless, mailman does have an e-mail interface.  For 

example, if you create a new list called "spork", you'll get an e-mail message like this telling you to create certain aliases:

The mailing list spork' has been created via the through-the-web interface. In order to complete the activation of this mailing list, the proper /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file must be updated. The program newaliases' may also have to be run.

Here are the entries for the /etc/aliases file:

spork: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman post spork" spork-admin: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman admin spork" spork-bounces: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman bounces spork" spork-confirm: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman confirm spork" spork-join: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman join spork" spork-leave: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman leave spork" spork-owner: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman owner spork" spork-request: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman request spork" spork-subscribe: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman subscribe spork" spork-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mail/mailman unsubscribe spork"

All you have to do is send e-mail to the appropriate address, and 

the appropriate action should be taken. For subscription/unsubscriptions, the recipient can send e-mail to the appropriate address, and then correctly respond to any confirmation notice that may be sent out.

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Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.