[Mailman-Users] Re: Feature Request -- Again

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 cblist at cityb.net wrote:

> All of the list configuration information and subscriber lists are kept in
> db files, not flat text files, but the db files are nearly as easy to
> manipulate... you can even use bin/withlist to import the list object into
> the python interpreter, which lets you do some very interesting things...

Just to avoid misconceptions, the db files Mailman uses are not Berkley DB
nor gdbm or anything like that. They are python marshals, generated
by the "marshal" standard python module (on of the ways to do object
persistence in python). And yes, they are very easy to manipulate (if you
know python, that is...)

	Leo

Insite System Administrator