On 1/1/2013 7:41 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:

I only wish to increase the max message size for all lists (DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE)

What's the simplest way to do this? I guess I could

(a) iterate over all lists (b) dump the configuration using the config_list -o command (c) replace the DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE value using sed or something (d) reload the configuration with config_list -i command

I would like to believe there is a simpler way to do something as basic as this. What am I missing?

First of all, you are confusing DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE with a list's max_message_size. DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE is a Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting that is used to set max_message_size for a list when the list is created. The list's max_message_size is apparently what you want to change.

The next thing you are missing is that settings not mentioned in the input file to bin/config_list are unchanged, so all you need is a one line input file

max_message_size = ...

and run config_list over all lists with that input. There are other ways to do this using bin/withlist too.

In your case, you could do something like

#!/bin/bash cd /path/to/mailman input=mktemp echo "max_message_size = ..." > $input for list in bin/list_lists -- bare; do bin/config_list -i $input $list done rm $input

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

On 1/1/2013 7:41 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:

I only wish to increase the max message size for all lists (DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE)

What's the simplest way to do this? I guess I could

(a) iterate over all lists (b) dump the configuration using the config_list -o command (c) replace the DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE value using sed or something (d) reload the configuration with config_list -i command

I would like to believe there is a simpler way to do something as basic as this. What am I missing?

First of all, you are confusing DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE with a list's max_message_size. DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE is a Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting that is used to set max_message_size for a list when the list is created. The list's max_message_size is apparently what you want to change.

The next thing you are missing is that settings not mentioned in the input file to bin/config_list are unchanged, so all you need is a one line input file

max_message_size = ...

and run config_list over all lists with that input. There are other ways to do this using bin/withlist too.

In your case, you could do something like

#!/bin/bash cd /path/to/mailman input=mktemp echo "max_message_size = ..." > $input for list in bin/list_lists -- bare; do bin/config_list -i $input $list done rm $input

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan