From a posting back in August:

Willendrup, Peter Kjær wrote:

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I have two mailinglists sitting on the same machine, one being the general user mailinglist (A) and the other one the software developer list (B) (B is reachable by a commonly known 'support' email adress).

Is there an easy way to allow members of list A to write messages to list B without being members of B?

See <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103> for a patch to allow this.

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My current solution is to add the members of A to the accepts filter of list B - something that I am currently doing using the web interface...

My real question is: Is it possible to add addresses to the 'accepts' filter of a mailinglist from the commandline?

And Mark Sapiro replied:

Not directly, but in a shell script you could prepare a file that looks like

mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('usera at example.com') mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('userb at example.com')

and so on for all the non-members you want to add and then run

bin/config_list -i filename listname

where filename is the name of the above file.

Alternatively, you could just prepare an input file that looks like

accept_these_nonmembers = [ 'usera at example.com', 'userb at example.com', 'userc at example.net', 'userd at example.net', ]

wherein all the addresses (not just adds) for accept_these_nonmembers are listed, and then run the same config_list command. See

bin/config_list --help

I have implemented a script to add an address to

 accept_these_nonmembers

in a collection of Mailman lists, and I am wondering if there is a similar mechanism for deleting an address in

 accept_these_nonmembers

in a collection of Mailman lists.

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