Benjamin Roger wrote: > >I am somewhat desperate - I need a few people to be able to post on >about 80 lists (cascaded) here, without moderation (moderation being the >default setting for members). >I think that to achieve this, I need to add them as members - and then >change their attributes, so they're not moderated, and do *not* receive >mails (80 times...).
This is one way to do it, but it is insecure as it allows anyone to post be spoofing the unmoderated user's address. A much better way is to give these authorized posters the moderator password for the lists and have them post using an Approved: header or first body line. Although, if they reallty need 80 different passwords each, I can see that would be quite a pain. >Adding them shouldn't be that much of a problem, with the add_members >script. >But I wonder about changing the attributes. Is there a way, via withlist >or anything else, to batch this kind of task? Yes. You could do it with a withlist script. You could add them too in the same script if you want to. The things you need to do in the withlist script would be from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman.Userdesc import Userdesc Then to add a member userdesc = Userdesc() userdesc.address = <the member's email address> See the AddMember definition in Mailman/MailList.py for other (optional) userdesc attributes and their defaults. Then do mlist.ApprovedAddMember(userdesc, ack=x, admin_notif=x) where x is True or False to add the member. The ack and admin_notif arguments are optional and default to list settings. To set a member's moderate flag off mlist.setMemberOption(member, mm_cfg.Moderate, False) where member is the members email address. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp