Maximum number of members per list
Hello,
i'm sorry if this has already been discussed here but my web search didn't bring much results.
Did this patch somehow made or will make it to the official mailman source?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558151
If not, is there any way of limiting the number of members in a list?
Thanks, Sergi Seira
Sergi wrote:
i'm sorry if this has already been discussed here but my web search didn't bring much results.
Did this patch somehow made or will make it to the official mailman source?
No.
If not, is there any way of limiting the number of members in a list?
Set Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy to either 'Require approval' or 'Confirm and approve' and stop approving subscriptions when you reach the limit.
(which seems to me to be a better approach than the patch in almost all if not all cases)
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 04/06/10 16:15, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Sergi wrote:
i'm sorry if this has already been discussed here but my web search didn't bring much results.
Did this patch somehow made or will make it to the official mailman source?
No.
If not, is there any way of limiting the number of members in a list?
Set Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy to either 'Require approval' or 'Confirm and approve' and stop approving subscriptions when you reach the limit.
(which seems to me to be a better approach than the patch in almost all if not all cases)
Hello,
thanks for the reply, but I was thinking not on a list administration context but on a whole mailman server administration context, something set at list creation time and unavailable for a list administrator. I am thinking of an ugly method of watching config.pck files, counting members and taking action if thresholds are reached.
Regards, Sergi
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Sergi wrote:
On 04/06/10 16:15, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Sergi wrote:
i'm sorry if this has already been discussed here but my web search didn't bring much results.
Did this patch somehow made or will make it to the official mailman source?
No.
If not, is there any way of limiting the number of members in a list?
<SNIP>
I am thinking of an ugly method of watching config.pck files, counting members and taking action if thresholds are reached.
Are you suggesting bolting on an SNMP interface? That *would* be very useful indeed, especially for resellers of mailman facilities.
Mark, are there any plans for an SNMP interface for Mailman?
Thanks for all that the Mailman team does for us: you guys are *great*!
//Alif
-- "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
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On 6/7/2010 4:59 AM, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Are you suggesting bolting on an SNMP interface? That *would* be very useful indeed, especially for resellers of mailman facilities.
Not speaking for the mailman developers, IMHO doing an snmp interface would be a colossal time sink. It would also be like trying to tighten a screw with a strawberry, or maybe a haddock- it's just the wrong tool for the job. snmp agents are not something that you generally whip out, anyway.
For mailman version 2, using command line tools is really the way to go.
What would be useful for mailman resellers is things like compete virtual domain handling (in v3) and additional management bits, but I don't see much utility in grafting those into the v2 distribution when v3 is being developed. Even better would be for those resellers to actively contribute to v3 design and development (i.e. be part of the community).
z! who has an opinion about this, but hasn't had enough coffee for the morning yet
Sergi wrote:
thanks for the reply, but I was thinking not on a list administration context but on a whole mailman server administration context, something set at list creation time and unavailable for a list administrator. I am thinking of an ugly method of watching config.pck files, counting members and taking action if thresholds are reached.
#!/bin/bash
cd ~mailman
for list in bin/list_lists --bare; do
if [ bin/list_members $list | wc -l -gt 200 ] ; then
echo $list has over 200 members
fi
done
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 07/06/10 16:34, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Sergi wrote:
thanks for the reply, but I was thinking not on a list administration context but on a whole mailman server administration context, something set at list creation time and unavailable for a list administrator. I am thinking of an ugly method of watching config.pck files, counting members and taking action if thresholds are reached.
#!/bin/bash cd ~mailman for list in
bin/list_lists --bare; do if [bin/list_members $list | wc -l-gt 200 ] ; then echo $list has over 200 members fi done
Hello,
yes, something like that :-)
Thanks, regards, Sergi
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