[Mailman-Users] Discard/Ban all messages pending moderation

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 05/30/2013 11:37 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering, is there a way i could discard all pending moderation
> > messages and also simultaneously add the sender's address to discard for
> > subsequent mails?
>
>
> If there aren't too many, it should be easy enough to go to the admindb
> interface for the list and for each sender in the summary of held
> messages, check the "Add xxx to one of these sender filters:" box and
> select the 'Discards' radio button and finally check the 'Discard all
> messages marked Defer' box and submit changes.
>
> Yeah i am very much aware of this option at it works well


> If there are so many that this is unwieldy,


This is the case...and thanks for providing this script...will test it out.
;-)

Thanks!


> you could do this with a
> withlist script. Something along the lines of the following totally
> untested script:
>
> from Mailman import mm_cfg
> def discard(mlist):
>     for id in mlist.GetHeldMessageIds():
>         sender = mlist.GetRecord(id)[1]
>         if sender not in mlist.discard_these_nonmembers:
>             mlist.discard_these_nonmembers.append(sender)
>         mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD)
>
>
> See 'bin/withlist --help' for what to do with this.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>



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