[Mailman-Users] command line tool to list ban_list, discard_these_nonmembers, accept_these_nonmembers, etc

[Matthew Needham]

Is there a succinct way to list "auxiliary" addresses that are configured in a list? By "auxiliary" I'm referring to addresses other than member, owner, or moderator, since those are easy to find with list_owners and find_members.

I'm trying to practice better list hygiene, and remove all relevant address when someone leaves the organization. The best way I've currently found is use a foreach loop to grab each list's config.pck and run dumpdb against it. I then filter out the uninteresting addresses and manually scan the results for relevant addresses.

I can't simply grep the output for relevant addresses, because a subscriber john.doe at domain.com may be allowed (or disallowed) to post from jd123 at free-email.com. I don't mind the manual scanning, but parsing the output if dumped is time consuming. I'm guessing there's a way to grep for the relevant settings and all relevant following lines, but my regex skills have not been up to the task.

I took a look at https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/non_members, but it appears to require that I know the addresses in advance, and not allow me to discover the relevant addresses. It also doesn't support ban_list, which is admittedly a rare occurrence for me, but I don't know if there are other unincluded settings I should be considering.

I suppose this raises a question of other possible list hygiene best-practices. Besides removing subscriptions and removing/reassigning administrator or moderator responsibilities, when else should I be doing to clean up when someone leaves?


Thanks!


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Matthew Needham
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