[Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Fri Apr 2 11:21:11 CEST 2010


    Stephen> David Andrews writes:
    >> Some other list software, I believe, has a feature that sends out a
    >> canned message once a month, such as list rules.  I would like to see
    >> this in MM3

    Stephen> -1.  This is mission creep.  A cron job will serve perfectly
    Stephen> well.

    Stephen> Something that assists in setting up such cron jobs (and/or
    Stephen> generalizes to whatever weirdness Windows does instead of cron
    Stephen> jobs) would be good as a contrib module, of course.

I assume the monthly reminder emails have be canned for a reason.  They do
have the nice property of sending something to every subscribed address,
even those who are set NOMAIL.  I can do something from the command line
(list_members?  I use the command line so infrequently that I always have to
look), but many list admins don't have shell access to their lists.

I hope I didn't open a can of worms.  MM2 doesn't seem to have a
through-the-web way to gather all list members from the admin's web
interface.  Will MM3?  That would at least allow admins to assemble a list
for sending all-hands or canned messages manually.

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