[Mailman-Developers] A couple of functions it would be nice to have from the command line

[Adam McGreggor]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Justin Long wrote:
> I moderate a mailman installation at http://www.strategicnetwork.org that
> has over 120,000 subscribers to various lists. Here are some functions that
> would be nice:'
> 1) the ability to add a new subscription to a given list without importing a
> text file. Right now it seems to be impossible to add a single address to a
> single list in the same way you can remove an address. This would be useful
> for adding a one-off email address change.
> 
> adduser -l /list/thelist johndoe at gmail.com

add_members -r- listname
<foo at example.org>
^d

> 2) the ability to change an email address en masse in all lists. At least
> once or twice a month I have people who write in who want to have their
> email address changed and they aren't technically minded enough to do this
> on their own. As a customer service issue it would be nice to simply
> accomodate them, e.g.
> 
> changeuser johndoe at gmail.com johndoe at smith.com

clone_member -r old at example.org new at example.org


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