Jim,

Thankyou, the code you have put forward makes sense and is what I wanted. After making a few small mods, it's now doing what I want. I have also found some other good examples of 'withlist' usage which helped.

One further question though :), the permissions on most of Mailman's files on the system in /var/mailman are owned by root with gid of mailman, mask 0744. My question is, if I do not want to run my scripts as root, is it fine for me to modify the permissions on these files, or is this likely to cause unexpected results for the web front end/system python scripts? Even if I add users to the mailman group, they are unlikely to have full access to the mailman databases etc.

Thanks & Regards

Geoff

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:jwt@onjapan.net] Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 12:57 PM To: Geoff Powell Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line

On May 6, 2004, at 17:25, Geoff Powell wrote:

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Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user on a mailing list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the utilities appear to be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions?

You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.

$ bin/withlist -l -i mylist m.setDeliveryStatus('user@domain.com', MailList.MemberAdaptor.BYADMIN) m.Save() {ctrl-D}

If this is the sort of thing you are going to do often, you should create a little Python script to remember the messy bits and save some typing. You could create a file called nomail.py containing:

from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYADMIN

def nomail(m, addr): try: m.setDeliveryStatus(addr, BYADMIN) m.Save() except NotAMemberError: print 'No address matched:', addr

Then to disable someone, do (either explicitly or with a script or alias):

$ bin/withlist -l -r nomail mylist user@domain.com

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