[Mailman-Users] Confusion with Mailman3 Config

[Mark Sapiro]

On 09/07/2017 01:27 PM, Sebastian Kotthoff wrote:
> 
> after installing mailman3 successfully (took me 5 evenings), I'm now confused about the configuration.


A more appropriate list for Mailman 3 is mailman-users at mailman3.org
<https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users@mailman3.org/>.


> But now, I like to change the default language of a list from English to German,
> so that the German templates are selected.
> 
> I found some hint in URL: https://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/commands/docs/create.html,
> where they use a command line (mailman client or mailman shell?) to change the language during creation.


A more up to date (and more nicely rendered) version of this is at
<http://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/create.html>.


> This does not work for me, but the mayer point is, that I got lost between the different kinds of interfaces.


There are currently no i18n translations for Mailman 3. Thus setting the
list's preferred language to German will have no real effect.


> It seems, that there are:
> - Rest server API          - start via ".local/bin/ipython3" in my environment?
> - Rest client API          - start via "ipython" ?
> - mailmanclient / mmclient - start via "python manage.py mmclient" in mailman-suite_project
> - mailman shell            - start via ".local/bin/mailman shell"
> 
> What would be the best way of configure a mailing list?


For configuration settings not exposed in Postorius, 'mailman shell' is
preferred. If a setting is not exposed in Postorius, there is no
guarantee it is exposed in the REST API either and even if it is, it may
not be exposed in mailmanclient.


> The howto from the URL above is working with the mailman shell for me, but unfortunately, it is
> about creating mailling lists, not creating. Are there any howto about modify a maillist?


See
<http://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/shell.html>.
Here's a simple example:

$ mailman shell -l test at mailman3.org
Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell
The variable 'm' is the test at mailman3.org mailing list
>>> m.preferred_language
<Language [en] English (USA)>
>>> m.preferred_language='de'
>>> m.preferred_language
<Language [de] German>
>>> commit()
>>>

The 'commit()' isn't necessary if you just exit (control-D) as that does
an implicit commit, but if you do a series of changes, without commit(),
you can reverse them with abort().

Also note that the above 'mailman shell -l test at mailman3.org' is the
latests syntax. Older versions may not use '-l' before the list name.

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