[Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

[Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

	Adam McGreggor
	Aug 3, 2015 at 1:07 pm

On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's
E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?

If you have shell access,
https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py is quite
nifty.

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Stephen J. Turnbull: Robert Heller writes: Yes. Addresses don't change frequently, are even less frequently reassigned to other users. In most cases the user does it for herself. Somebody needs to authenticate, otherwise all kinds of mischief are possible (and in the past occurred frequently). If the user can't, it has to be the admin, and administrative removal plus administrative subscription is the obvious way to change a subscriber's address, since Mailman 2 has no concept of "subscriber", only "subscribed

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Mark Sapiro: Unless you have Mailman 2.1.20 or newer in which case there is an Address Change subsection in the admin Membership Management... section. With command line access, you can use Mailman's bin/clone_member, but many (most?) list admins don't have this access. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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