I've seen a python script that does this - it was posted to this list, so it must be in the archives. What you really need to do, is edit your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file and add in the defaults that you prefer. Then when you create a new list, the defaults will be set properly to your standards.
Alternately, you can dump out a lists configuration by using ~mailman/bin/dumpdb You can modify the output and then feed that back into a list (using dumpdb again) to modify its configuration! Dumpdb is a great tool and you can use it to dump out and save various mailing list "syles" (like announcement only lists, general discussion lists, or moderated private lists, etc...) Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 08:46, Erez Zadok wrote: > [I've used mailman for a few years now, but I'm new to this list.] > > How do I create an identical duplicate of a list by another new name? > > I'm using mailman 2.0.13. I'm generally very happy with it. When I need to > create a new list, it takes me time to create it, b/c for the most part I > want to configure that list identically to other lists (esp. wrt > privacy/protection features). Specifically I want to turn on/off certain > features, etc. I do so by creating a new list, then going through the Web > interface for the old and new list, and setting the options by hand. It's a > pain and time consuming. > > I could not find a python script to duplicate one list to another. I'd like > to copy everything: configuration, archives, and subscribership. Actually, > I mostly care about configuration. I don't mind if the subscribership and > archives are duplicated or not (I can handle those relatively automatically > by other means). > > If someone had written a python script to "cp oldlist newlist" please let me > know. (I couldn't find it in the faqs either.) > > I also couldn't find this feature in the short list of new mailman 2.1 > features. Is something like that planned for 2.1? > > Thanks, > Erez. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/