Well some guy named Mark supported one method in the past 8-) (which I found googling ‘how to disable a mailman 2 list’ because I’d like to know how, too, since we do occasionally have need to do this.)

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-September/070283.html

Since he appears to have shell access using the script you gave would let him move the list directory to someplace like /path/to/mailman/lists/[listname] to /path/to/mailman/disabled lists/[listname]

That would let him re-enable the list without having to recreate everything.

On May 27, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Mark Sapiro mailto:mark@msapiro.net> wrote:

On 5/27/22 10:22, John Lake wrote: Our security department has asked me to canvas all of our lists (4,237!)—and if a list owner value is not defined they want me to disable the list.

1. Can I combine the list_lists and list_owners commands to output both (hopefully linked) values as a .csv?

list_owners -w will list the owners by list name. If a list has no owners, only the list name will be output for that list. You could then process that file to identify the lists with no owners.

2. Is there a script that any of you have leveraged to batch disable lists without a defined owner?

What do you mean by disable?

A withlist script like

def no_owner(mlist)
   if len mlist.owner == 0:
       if not mlist.Locked:
           mlist.Lock
       print('List %s has no owners, disabling.' % mlist.real_name)
       <code here to disable list. I could provide it if I knew what that meant>
       mlist.Save()
       mlist.Unlock()

saved as no_owner.py in Mailman's bin/ directory and run via

bin/withlist -a -r no_owner

You could omit the code

       if not mlist.Locked:
           mlist.Lock
       <code here to disable list. I could provide it if I knew what that meant>
       mlist.Save()
       mlist.Unlock()

I.e., just leave the print statement in the if len mlist.owner == 0: clause to just print the names of lists with no owner.

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Thanks very much Bruce and Mark!

Much appreciated,

John

On 5/27/22, 1:53 PM, "Mark Sapiro" mark@msapiro.net wrote:

On 5/27/22 12:47, Bruce Johnson via Mailman-Users wrote:
> Well some guy named Mark supported one method in the past 8-) (which I found googling ‘how to disable a mailman 2 list’ because I’d like to know how, too, since we do occasionally have need to do this.)
> 
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The method in that thread is simply moving the lists/<listname> aside. 
That is one way to disable a list, but there are others depending on 
what you actually want. For that, this withlist script will do it.
```
import os
from Mailman import Site
BACKUP_DIR = 'path to a mailman writable directory'
def no_owner(mlist)
     if len mlist.owner == 0:
         print('List %s has no owners, disabling.' % mlist.real_name)
         src = Site.get_listpath(mlist.internal_name())
         dst = os.path.join(BACKUP_DIR, mlist.internal_name())
         os.rename(src, dst)
```
BACKUP_DIR is set to the full path of the directory in which to save the 
list configurations. To avoid potential issues with os.rename, 
BACKUP_DIR should be on the same file system as Mailman's lists/ directory.

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