On 09/16/2015 03:53 PM, Montanez, Victor wrote:

I am wondering if there is a way to have several mailman lists created at once via command line. I am talking about 100 lists or so. Otherwise creating them through the GUI would take forever.

Maybe creating a file with list name, password,etc and passing that file to the create binary?

Create your file with multiple lines of the form

list1 owner@example.com password

Assume it's named 'lists'

Create a script like

#! /bin/bash exec 5</path/to/lists while read -u 5 list owner passwd; do /path/to/mailman/bin/newlist -q $list $owner $passwd done

Then either give it +x permission and run it with

/path/to/script

or run it via

bash /path/to/script

This will create the lists without sending email notifications to the owners. If you want the notifications and your Mailman is 2.1.20 or newer, you can replace the newlist -q option with -a.

If you want the notifications and your Mailman is older, you can make the newlist command in the script

/path/to/mailman/bin/newlist $list $owner $passwd </dev/null

each invocation of newlist will produce a 'Hit enter to notify listname owner...' prompt on stdout but the response will be read from /dev/null so you don't have to 'Hit enter' for each one.

See 'bin/newlist --help' for more info.

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