[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?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:jwt at onjapan.net]
Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 12:57 PM
To: Geoff Powell
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Change user settings through command line

You can do this sort of thing with 'withlist'.

$ bin/withlist -l -i mylist
m.setDeliveryStatus('user at domain.com', 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 user at domain.com

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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.