[Mailman-Users] deleting users over multiple lists

[Spyro Polymiadis]

Ive come up with my own little function.. its not ideal but certainly 
does the job - no hiccups so far with it...
basically i have a script called unsubuser, it prompts you for the 
username of the person you wish to unsub from lists, the it calls this 
function i wrote, displays the lists that person is subscribed to, and 
if its ok, press enter to begin the removal...


unsubscribe () (

        cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/

#This will search for instances of the username in the available lists 
and chomp the output to a file that contains just the listnames
        grep $USERNAME * -R | sed -e s"/\// /g" | grep Binary  | awk 
'{print $3}' | sort -u > /tmp/sub
        echo "This will remove $USERNAME from these lists: "
        cat /tmp/sub
        echo "Press ENTER to continue (no going back) or Control-C to quit"
        read -e

#This unsubs the users from the lists in the file
        for d in `cat /tmp/sub` ; do  echo "$USERNAME"@domain.com | 
remove_members -f - $d ; echo "Removing subscription from $d" ; done
)


The only flaw i see with it, is the listadmins email address is in each 
of the lists, but not necessarily a member of them.. so when you go to 
remove a person who is also a list admin it shows all the lists... but 
the function still works...

I would like to see a more sane way of unsubbing a person from all lists 
easier though...

Cheers
Spyro




Ryan Steele wrote:
> Juan Miscaro wrote:
>   
>> --- Ryan Steele <steele at agora-net.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Juan Miscaro wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Is there any way to delete subscriber addresses over multiple lists
>>>> easily (command line)?  I am using Mailman 2.1.8 on OpenBSD 4.0.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Maybe something like this for a single user:
>>> for list in `bin/list_lists | awk '{print $1}'` do;
>>>      bin/remove_members $list username
>>> done
>>>     
>>>       
>> Can't I just go
>>
>> $ bin/remove_members --fromall user at example.com
>>
>> ?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Yes, but only if you want them removed from every list.  Your request 
> indicated to me you only wanted to remove them from a subset of all the 
> lists - e.g., you said "multiple lists", not "all lists".
>
>   
>>> ...or this for multiple users
>>> users='foo bar baz'
>>> for list in `bin/list_lists | awk '{print $1}'` do;
>>>      bin/remove_members $list users
>>> done
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I also want to be able to remove all addresses from particular
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> domains.
>>>     
>>>       
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> You mean, remove all members from all lists belonging to a particular
>>> domain name?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Yes, that is what I mean.
>>
>> I want to be able to go
>>
>> $ bin/remove_members --fromall *@example.com
>>
>> but I read on the mailman FAQ that regexp/globs are not permitted.
>>
>> Juan
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> You want to use bin/withlist, which will support regular expressions.
>
>   
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