one line command to change generic_nonmember_action
I'm writing a simplified mailman dashboard page for my company's internal use and one of the functions we want is to be able to toggle the generic_nonmember_action for any given list. Has anyone out there devised a one line command which will allow this?
-----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Syn, Joonho Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:53 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] one line command to change generic_nonmember_action
I'm writing a simplified mailman dashboard page for my company's internal use and one of the functions we want is to be able to toggle the generic_nonmember_action for any given list. Has anyone out there devised a one line command which will allow this?
Hi,
I'm not sure if there is a direct command that can do this but I've been doing something similar lately. I had a setup of 20+ mailing lists which had to be identical in a specialised configuration. Doing that by the web interface filled me with dread so I started looking around and found the mailman utility 'bin/config_list'.
This brilliant (imnsho!) utility allows you to either dump out a list's configuration in plain text or read in a list's configuration, again in plain text.
Let's see you have a list called SomeList. You can dump out the entire configuration (not the members list, just the list's functional settings) by typing:
cd ~mailman bin/config_list -o - SomeList
This will dump to screen ( -o - ) the configuration of SomeList.
It's just a minor logical step to do
bin/config_list -o /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeListWhich dumps the config into a file /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt
If you were to look at that file you'd find a section like this:
====== # When a post from a non-member is received, the message's sender is # matched against the list of explicitly accepted, # held, rejected (bounced), and discarded # addresses. If no match is found, then this action is taken. # # legal values are: # 0 = "Accept" # 1 = "Hold" # 2 = "Reject" # 3 = "Discard" generic_nonmember_action = 1
You could either replace the value at the end of the line, or just swap in a whole new line.
Then save the text file and read the configuration BACK to the list:
bin/config_list -i /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeList
Note the change from '-o' (output) to '-i' (input).
It would be easily possible to pipe these commands together, maybe using sed as the output=>input parser.
So something like,
bin/config_list -o - SomeList | /usr/bin/sed -f swapscript - |bin/config_list -i - SomeList
Where 'swapscript' is a simple script to detect the "generic_nonmember_action = 1" line and change it as you want.
Of course there's probably a simpler/better way of doing this but it should work.
Regards, S Watkins
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote:
bin/config_list -o /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeListWhich dumps the config into a file /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt
Then save the text file and read the configuration BACK to the list: bin/config_list -i /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeList
Of course there's probably a simpler/better way of doing this but it should work.
I've been quite happy using:
http://code.amyl.org.uk/adam/mailman-scripts/debian/editlistconfig(patches welcome, should anyone think it necessary)
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Syn, Joonho wrote:
I'm writing a simplified mailman dashboard page for my company's internal use and one of the functions we want is to be able to toggle the generic_nonmember_action for any given list. Has anyone out there devised a one line command which will allow this?
See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/uIA9.
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I all, who can explain me howto run multiple instances of mailman in a single host (one for different domain)? Do I have to create different /etc/init.d/mailman??
Thank you Bye Alessandro
Alessandro Bruchi wrote:
I all, who can explain me howto run multiple instances of mailman in a single host (one for different domain)? Do I have to create different /etc/init.d/mailman??
Each instance of Mailman needs to be configured with a unique value for prefix (and var-prefix if different from prefix), and each instance needs to be started by its own $prefix/bin/malmanctl. Whether you have separate /etc/init.d/ scripts for each instance or combine them all into one is up to you.
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