Rex Goode wrote: > >I operate several Mailman lists. I have lots of questions, but will >start with the most pressing one. > >It is cumbersome, with so many lists, to go in to each list's page of >pending administrative requests to see what is waiting for me to act upon.
cron/checkdbs will mail to the ower of each list with outstanding requests a summary of thos requests. In a normal, complete installation this runs at 08:00 daily, but you can manually run it at any time or adjust the crontab to run it more frequently. Or you could make a script based on it that would print the output instead of mailing it. >I just discovered withlist this morning. I think I can handle my shell >for iterating through all of my lists. > >Is there some way, possibly with withlist, for me to get a list of >pending requests for a list. I don't need a lot of information about >them. Maybe even just a number of pending requests. The results of the >query on all lists would go to me in an email. def count_requests(mlist): if mlist.NumRequestsPending(): print 'List: %s, Requests = %i' % (mlist.real_name, mlist.NumRequestsPending()) save that as bin/count_requests.py. Then run, e.g. #!/bin/sh cd /path/to/mailman bin/withlist -a -r count_requests | mail -s "subj" y...@example.com >My users are getting annoyed when I get around to looking at their held >messages and releasing them two weeks after they sent them. Maybe I'm >just irresponsible, but it seems I should be able to know which lists >have pending requests with just one click/cron/something. It sounds like you haven't installed Mailman's crontab. Also note, if you set General Options -> admin_immed_notify to Yes the list owner(s)/moderator(s) will receive email notice of each request as it is made. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org