• Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull@gmail.com>:

Ralf Hildebrandt writes:

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How do I send an email to all list admins?

AFAIK, one by one, or you could make a mailing list for them.

That's what I did.

I guess you could save them one message by putting your announcement in the welcome message.

I never send those :)

I think the original idea of the mailman@list.example.net list was to put the admins there.

Oh!

You'd have to do it by hand, and pretty much nobody seems to do that.

Same here.

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On Apr 26, 2022, at 3:01 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de<mailto:Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>> wrote:

• Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull@gmail.com<mailto:stephenjturnbull@gmail.com>>: Ralf Hildebrandt writes:

How do I send an email to all list admins?

AFAIK, one by one, or you could make a mailing list for them.

IF you have access to the command-line of the server, this might help

I have a script I wrote (or rather I’m pretty sure I have one of Mark’s scripts that I modified :-) that gets the name and address of every list on our system and exports a tab-delimited file with the admin and moderator emails as separate lists . Something similar could be used to just get all the admins out into a flat file, then use

./sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f admins_file admins_list

to routinely generate the list and resynch it via cron, so you don’t have to worry about manually keeping it up to date.

#!/usr/bin/env python ''' List info for internal links page '''

import os import time DEBUG = 0 #print "List,Description,Owner(s),Moderator(s)" def list_lister(mlist): last = time.strftime('%m-%d-%Y',time.localtime(mlist.last_post_time)) owner = '' out = open('./listoflists', 'a') try: if len(mlist.owner)>1: owner = ';'.join(mlist.owner) else: owner = mlist.owner[0] except IndexError: owner = 'none' moderator='' try: if len(mlist.moderator)>1: moderator = ';'.join(mlist.moderator) else: moderator = mlist.moderator[0] except IndexError: moderator = 'none' out.write( mlist.real_name + "\t" + mlist.description + "\t" + owner + "\t" + moderator + "\t" + last + "\n") out.close() print "processed %s" % (mlist.real_name) return

(I use this script to provide the data for an easy-to-use web tool for our admins and moderators to access to do the parts they manage. Many of our lists membership management is done entirely outside of Mailman, leveraging our student data, campus LDAP, our own Active directory to manage ~60 lists that keeps up with people coming, going, changing departments, email addresses etc. )

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