Dave Anderson wrote:

All of our lists have separate list owners, but I would like to add a secondary list owner to all the mailing lists, is there a way to do this by command line?

There are a couple of ways to do this. The most flexible is probably the withlist script at <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_admins.py> (mirrored at <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/change_admins.py>).

Another way to do it would be a shell script similar to

#!/bin/sh f=mktemp echo > $f "mlist.owner += ['aditional_owner@example.com']" cd /path/to/mailman for list in bin/list_lists --bare; do bin/config_list -i $f $list done rm $f

The drawback of this shell script is it doesn't check if 'aditional_owner@example.com' is already an owner, and if it is, the list will wind up with a duplicate in owner. This is not an issue with the change_admins.py script as it does check.

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