On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Christoph Seiler wrote:

I would like to add a new CGI program for Mailman, because the existing scripts do not fit my needs. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with Mailman and this seems to be a bit complicated. So I would appreciate any help.

I recently needed to add a 'list all members' function for our list admins; I elected to modify the python scripts in the Mailman directory:

1. In Mailman/Gui/Membership.py: I added: ('listall', _('List All')), to the function GetConfigSubCategories(self, category)

This had the effect of adding a new option to the 'Membership Management' section of Mailman, called 'List All' with an internal code of 'listall'.

2. In Mailman/Cgi/admin.py line 488, I changed: if subcat not in ('list', 'add', 'remove'): to: if subcat not in ('list', 'add', 'remove', 'listall'):

This had the effect of not defaulting to the wrong thing when the user requests 'listall'.

The rest of it may not help you, as the functionality I needed was already there, I just needed access to it. I changed line 814 from: if len(all) < chunksz: to: if len(all) < chunksz or subcat == 'listall':

Presumably I could have just as well have added an elseif to handle that (as I may well do to make it *just* a list of members and not a form).

Jerry jerry@sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773

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