[Mailman-Users] playing with mailcmd

[Fil]

Hi,

I like to have an address list-on at server for users to subscribe by email. I
finally found how to do it: just by adding the following line in
/etc/aliases

listname-on: "|formail -I 'Subject: subscribe' |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd listname"

It evidently works with any command you might want to try (-off for
unsubscribe, -stop for nomail, etc).

* However, I have a problem with mailcmd: it seems that it takes the address
* not on the "From:" or "Reply-To:" lines, but on the "From" line. This is
* not good behaviour, as this line is quite often not the real email address
* of the user, but its POP address.

Then adding these lines automatically to the output of bin/newlist is the
following simple patch. Enjoy!

*** newlist     Thu Feb 17 17:25:28 2000
--- newlist-dist        Thu Feb 17 17:21:55 2000
***************
*** 110,142 ****
      print '''
  Entry for aliases file:
  
  ## %(listname)s mailing list
  ## created: %(date)s %(user)s
  %(list)s "|%(wrapper)s post %(listname)s"
  %(admin)s "|%(wrapper)s mailowner %(listname)s"
  %(request)s "|%(wrapper)s mailcmd %(listname)s"
  %(owner1)s %(listname)s-admin
  %(owner2)s %(listname)s-admin
- %(on)s "|formail -I'Subject: subscribe'|%(wrapper)s mailcmd %(listname)s"
- %(off)s "|formail -I'Subject: unsubscribe'|%(wrapper)s mailcmd %(listname)s"
  ''' % {'listname': list_name,
         'list'    : "%-24s" % (list_name + ":"),
         'wrapper' : '%s/wrapper' % mm_cfg.WRAPPER_DIR,
         'admin'   : "%-24s" % ("%s-admin:" % list_name),
         'request' : "%-24s" % ("%s-request:" % list_name),
         'owner1'  : "%-24s" % ("owner-%s:" % list_name),
         'owner2'  : "%-24s" % ("%s-owner:" % list_name),
         'date'    : time.strftime('%d-%b-%Y', time.localtime(time.time())),
         'user'    : getusername(),
-        'on'    : "%-24s" % ("%s-on:" % list_name),
-        'off'      : "%-24s" % ("%s-off:" % list_name),
         }
  
      if len(argv) < 5:
        print ("Hit enter to continue with %s owner notification..."
               % list_name),
        sys.stdin.readline()
      sendnotice(newlist, list_name, owner_mail, list_pw)
      newlist.Unlock()
  
  
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