[Mailman-Users] Removing admin email addresses

[Jonathan Dill]

Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im using mailman 2.1.9, and ive got close to 100 mail lists on it.
>
> We just have had one of our IT guys leave our company, and I was wondering if there was an easy (bulk, cli) way to remove/change the email address from the "List of Administrators" (2nd text box in General Options)
>
> Otherwise, its very a very cumbersome job to log in to each list and remove the address manually.
>   
When I did something similar, I wrote some ad hoc scripts using 
"config_list -o" to dump the configs for all of the lists to text 
files--saving the "pristine" version in case I needed to undo all the 
changes--then use regex replacement to make the changes I wanted and 
dump to a "new" config file, then "config_list -i" to load the modified 
configurations.  I guess it was about 5 yrs ago, probably with shell 
commands and awk, I'm sure it wasn't pretty but it got the job done, 
doubt that I have any of the scripts that I used since that was a 
previous job.  See "config_list --help" for the options and command 
syntax, you might have to login as the mailman user depending how you 
have things configured.

Naturally, make sure you have a good backup in case something goes 
awry.  Depending on your bravery level, it might be a good idea to do it 
when the lists are less active, and possibly shut down the MTA 
temporarily or block access to it when you make the changes so you don't 
have "bits in flight" when the changes occur and have something untoward 
happen with the queue.

Jonathan