[Mailman-Users] Trying to make a coule site wide changes

[Mark Sapiro]

Derrick MacPherson wrote:

>Sorry I'm not much of a programmer, I'm trying to figure out how to make 
>  a couple site wide changes using the with_list command. I've stumbled 
>around and am not getting anywhere, nor have i yet found an example that 
>will do what I need. I'm trying to change the list owner and the 
>personalize option to 2. Anyone care to turn the lights on for me?


bin/withlist --help

gives instructions. There are lots of specific withlist examples in the
archives of this list, e.g.
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-February/049447.html>.

If you need something more specific to this task, assuming you want to
set the same owner and personalize option for all lists, put the
following in bin/my_change.py

---------------------------------------------
def my_change(mlist):
    if not mlist.Locked():
        mlist.Lock()
    mlist.personalise = 2
    mlist.owner = ['owner at example.com']
    mlist.Save()
    mlist.Unlock()
---------------------------------------------

and then run

bin/withlist -a -r my_change

In this case you can accomplish the same thing with config_list instead
by putting the two lines

personalise = 2
owner = ['owner at example.com']

in a file and running something like the following shell script

#! /bin/sh
cd (the mailman install directory)
for list in `ls lists/`
do bin/config_list -i path/to/file $list
done

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