[Mailman-Users] Digest question

[Mark Sapiro]

Paul Key wrote:
>
>I know senddigest is entered in cron but should other lists want digest 
>ability they may want different times dates.  Do I need multiple cron 
>entries for senddigest?  Is senddigest configurable?  Can I pass in 
>command line parameters telling senddigest which lists to send digests for?


Yes. "cron/senddigests -l listname"

What it doesn't have is an "exclude listname" option so it would be
easy enough to add a crontab entry to send digests for this list at
8:15 and 13:15 M-F, but not sending digests to this list at the
"regular" times is trickier.

Of course, if you made the regular times say 13:15 M-F, then you could
just add the 8:15 M-F entry for this list, but if you wanted to keep
sending to other lists at daily at noon, you'd need something along
the lines of:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~mailman
for list in `bin/list_lists --bare`
do if [[ $list != special-list ]]
then cron/senddigests -l $list
fi
done

to be run at the normal time.

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