Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
I have a subscriber who needs to change her E-Mail address for a list, and since she does not (yet?) know how to use her (new) iPhone, and is basically unable to respond to mailman confirmation message. There is no obvious place to change a subscriber's E-Mail address that does not entail going through the mailman confirmation process.
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Robert Heller writes:
Yes. Addresses don't change frequently, are even less frequently reassigned to other users. In most cases the user does it for herself.
Somebody needs to authenticate, otherwise all kinds of mischief are possible (and in the past occurred frequently). If the user can't, it has to be the admin, and administrative removal plus administrative subscription is the obvious way to change a subscriber's address, since Mailman 2 has no concept of "subscriber", only "subscribed address".
Mailman 3 does have a notion of "user" apart from a subscription, so it is possible to change the address of a user.
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
If you have shell access, https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py is quite nifty.
-- "There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." -- Otto von Bismarck
On 08/02/2015 10:15 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
Unless you have Mailman 2.1.20 or newer in which case there is an Address Change subsection in the admin Membership Management... section.
With command line access, you can use Mailman's bin/clone_member, but many (most?) list admins don't have this access.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Robert Heller writes:
Yes. Addresses don't change frequently, are even less frequently reassigned to other users. In most cases the user does it for herself.
Somebody needs to authenticate, otherwise all kinds of mischief are possible (and in the past occurred frequently). If the user can't, it has to be the admin, and administrative removal plus administrative subscription is the obvious way to change a subscriber's address, since Mailman 2 has no concept of "subscriber", only "subscribed address".
Mailman 3 does have a notion of "user" apart from a subscription, so it is possible to change the address of a user.
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
If you have shell access, https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py is quite nifty.
-- "There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." -- Otto von Bismarck
On 08/02/2015 10:15 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
Unless you have Mailman 2.1.20 or newer in which case there is an Address Change subsection in the admin Membership Management... section.
With command line access, you can use Mailman's bin/clone_member, but many (most?) list admins don't have this access.
-- 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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