[Mailman-Users] Messed up list, want to transfer the users

[Ed Greenberg]

This is excellent advice. Thank you. I'm using Mailman 2.1, and plan to u/g 
to 2.1.1 as well.

You stated, "do what you wish with the nomail people." I suppose I have to 
add them as mail-recipients and then set nomail by hand. There shouldn't be 
too many of them :)

Thanks.

</edg>

--On Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:53 PM -0500 Matthew Davis 
<matthew.davis at dogpound.vnet.net> wrote:

> * Ed Greenberg (edg at greenberg.org) wrote:
>> What I'd like to do is to delete the list and recreate it, then add the
>> users back. I can extract a list of users and re-add them, but I cannot
>> figure out how to save their settings (such as digest and nomail).
>>
>> Is this possible, or should I just tell them that their options are
>> going  to be lost.
>
> The easy way would be to tell them all options will be lost.  But if you
> want a bit more work, you could save that info.  Just will take a few
> extra steps.  You didn't say which mailman you use, which only means the
> -f option won't be availiable on mailman 2.0.x (which is to preserve the
> full name), so this information is based on mailman 2.0.13
>
> This gives you all the regular (non-digest) members in a file called
> regular.members
># bin/list_members -rpo regular.members LISTNAME
>
> This will put the digest members in digest.members
># bin/list_members -dpo digest.members LISTNAME
>
> If your using mailman 2.1 then you can get the nomail users
># bin/list_members -npo nomail.members LISTNAME
>
> Then you can readd them using bin/add_members  And I'll give you mailman
> 2.1.1 examples since now would be a good time to upgrade if your redoing
> the list.  Highly recommended upgrading to 2.1.1
>
># bin/add_members -r regular.members LISTNAME
># bin/add_members -d digest.members LISTNAME
>
> And you can do what you wish with the nomail people.
>
> --
> Matthew Davis
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