Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
On May 7, 2004, at 18:21, Geoff Powell wrote: One further question though :), the permissions on most of Mailman's files on the system in /var/mailman are owned by root with gid of mailman, mask 0744. My question is, if I do not want to run my scripts as root, is it fine for me to modify the permissions on these files, or is this likely to cause unexpected results for the web front end/system python scripts? Even if I add users to the mailman group, they are unlikely to have full access to the mailman databases etc. I would expect your mailman list databases already to be group writeable by the mailman group. (Check the files in /usr/local/mailman/lists/** or maybe /var/mailman/lists/** in your case.) -- 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/
RE: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
Jim,
Thankyou, the code you have put forward makes sense and is what I
wanted. After making a few small mods, it's now doing what I want. I
have also found some other good examples of 'withlist' usage which
helped.
One further question though :), the permissions on most of Mailman's
files on the system in /var/mailman are owned by root with gid of
mailman, mask 0744. My question is, if I do not want to run my scripts
as root, is it fine for me to modify the permissions on these files, or
is this likely to cause unexpected results for the web front end/system
python scripts? Even if I add users to the mailman group, they are
unlikely to have full access to the mailman databases etc.
Thanks & Regards
Geoff
> -Original Message-
> From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 12:57 PM
> To: Geoff Powell
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
>
>
> On May 6, 2004, at 17:25, Geoff Powell wrote:
>
> > Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a
> > command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user
> on a mailing
> > list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the
> utilities appear
> > to be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.
>
> $ bin/withlist -l -i mylist
> m.setDeliveryStatus('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', MailList.MemberAdaptor.BYADMIN)
> m.Save()
> {ctrl-D}
>
> If this is the sort of thing you are going to do often, you should
> create a little Python script to remember the messy bits and
> save some
> typing. You could create a file called nomail.py containing:
>
> from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError
> from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYADMIN
>
> def nomail(m, addr):
> try:
> m.setDeliveryStatus(addr, BYADMIN)
> m.Save()
> except NotAMemberError:
> print 'No address matched:', addr
>
> Then to disable someone, do (either explicitly or with a script or
> alias):
>
> $ bin/withlist -l -r nomail mylist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
On May 6, 2004, at 17:25, Geoff Powell wrote:
Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a
command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user on a mailing
list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the utilities appear to
be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions?
You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.
$ bin/withlist -l -i mylist
m.setDeliveryStatus('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', MailList.MemberAdaptor.BYADMIN)
m.Save()
{ctrl-D}
If this is the sort of thing you are going to do often, you should
create a little Python script to remember the messy bits and save some
typing. You could create a file called nomail.py containing:
from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError
from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYADMIN
def nomail(m, addr):
try:
m.setDeliveryStatus(addr, BYADMIN)
m.Save()
except NotAMemberError:
print 'No address matched:', addr
Then to disable someone, do (either explicitly or with a script or
alias):
$ bin/withlist -l -r nomail mylist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line
Hi all, Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user on a mailing list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the utilities appear to be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions? Tia Regards Geoff -- 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/
