David Beaumont wrote:

Firstly is there a way to globally remove passwords for all users on a list. They are a pain, users forget them and I trust our users not to need one.

No, you can't remove passwords, but you can set everyone's password to, for example, a single letter.

You would do this with withlist. The following is an example of a withlist session that would set everyone's password to the letter p.

bin/withlist -l example Loading list example (locked) The variable `m' is the example MailList instance

...

...

for member in m.getMembers(): ... m.setMemberPassword(member, 'p') ... (at this prompt, type <CR> only) m.Save() (at this prompt, enter control-D) Unlocking (but not saving) list: example Finalizing

Note that there is a more elaborate reset_pw.py withlist script in Mailman's bin directory. It gives everyone a new, random password. You could modify it by changing the line

    randompw = Utils.MakeRandomPassword()

to for example

    randompw = 'p'

and run it via

bin/withlist -l -r reset_pw listname

Secondly and alternatively I notice at the foot of each of the mailman developers emails is an 'unsubscribe' link that takes you to your own details page in mailman

Eg "Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/david%40johmar.com"

How do you get the individuals email address to be included at the end of that link?

Set

OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes

in mm_cfg.py

Then in the admin interface set Non-digest options->personalize to Yes and follow the (Details for personalize) link to see the additional substitutions that are available when the list is personalized.

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