Steve Lund wrote: > >I am currently administering a small Mailman 2.11 list for our volunteer >organization. Another individual needs the basic ability to >subscribe, unsubscribe and possibly list members. This person thinks that >they are a lot more computer literate than they are and I don't want to >give them the password to the web configuration interface for fear that >they will mess something up that will take me hours to figure out and fix. > >I am an embedded hardware engineer and not a programmer but I am careful >enough not to change settings or list parameters without thoroughly testing >the changes. So far I have managed to stay out of trouble! :-) > >Is it possible to do these rudimentary functions via the e-mail interface? >If so can you point me to some documentation on how to do this? The only >information I have found on the email interface seems to be directed to an >individual user changing their own parameters and not to admin functions.
There is no e-mail interface for list admin tasks per-se, but the admin can list members via email and can _request_ subscription and unsubscription via email, but these latter function will send a confirmation request to the user and the user must confirm. Send a blank email with subject 'help' to the listname-request address for documentation of the email commands available. >Would I then have to add this person as an administrator and then just not >tell them about the other email commands or the existence of the web interface? For subscribe and unsubscribe, the person doesn't need any privileges. The relevant email commands are subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [address=<address>] <address> is the address to subscribe. password is not for authentication; it is the initial list password for the user. This results in a confirmation request to <address>. unsubscribe [password] [address=<address>] <address> is the address to unsubscribe. password is the list password associated with <address> if known. If the password is provided correctly, <address> will be unsubscribed. Otherwise, a confirmation request will be sent to <address>. To get a membership list, you can set a list moderator password different from the list admin password and give the moderator password to this person. You don't add this person to the list's 'moderator' attribute unless you want her/him to also get notices about posts, etc. waitin moderator action. The moderator password will allow the person to authenticate for the list's admindb interface, but she/he can't change list settings from there. Then the person can send who password to the list-request address to get a full list of members (hidden or not), where password is the moderator password. That's the best you can do by email. Otherwise, you have to give the person the list admin password, and they have to use the admin Membership Management pages, and of course, they have access to all the rest. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
