[Mailman-Users] How to automate newlist

[Chris Hedemark]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:35, Tim Crouch wrote:
> I asked this once before and got no response, so I thought I'd ask
> again.  Is there any way to have newlist read a file with the arguments
> of the lists in it?  I have 547 lists to create (migrate acutally) and I
> have a file with the listname, listadmin-addr, and a default password. 
> I would like to have newlist read this file and generate the lists in a
> batch-type process.  Anybody done something like this?

You can do that with a perl script if the input file is consistently
delineated.  newlist itself won't read it, but there is nothing stopping
you from calling newlist 547 times in a script.