[Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line

[Jim Tittsler]

On May 6, 2004, at 17:25, Geoff Powell wrote:

> Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a
> command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user on a mailing
> list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the utilities appear to
> be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions?

You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.

$ bin/withlist -l -i mylist
m.setDeliveryStatus('user at domain.com', MailList.MemberAdaptor.BYADMIN)
m.Save()
{ctrl-D}

If this is the sort of thing you are going to do often, you should 
create a little Python script to remember the messy bits and save some 
typing.  You could create  a file called nomail.py containing:

from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError
from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYADMIN

def nomail(m, addr):
     try:
         m.setDeliveryStatus(addr, BYADMIN)
         m.Save()
     except NotAMemberError:
         print 'No address matched:', addr

Then to disable someone, do (either explicitly or with a script or 
alias):

$ bin/withlist -l -r nomail mylist user at domain.com

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