config_list(8) [debian man page]
CONFIG_LIST(8) System Manager's Manual CONFIG_LIST(8) NAME
config_list - Configure a Mailman mailing list from a text file description SYNOPSIS
config_list [options] listname DESCRIPTION
This is a very powerful script which lets you view and modify a list's configuration variables from the command line. E.g. you can dump out all the list options into a plain text file (actually a valid Python file!), complete with comments explaining each variable. Or you can apply the configuration from such a file to a particular list. OPTIONS
-i filename, --inputfile=filename Configure the list by assigning each module-global variable in the file to an attribute on the list object, then saving the list. The named file is loaded with execfile() and must be legal Python code. Any variable that isn't already an attribute of the list object is ignored (a warning message is printed). See also the -c option. A special variable named `mlist' is put into the globals during the execfile, which is bound to the actual MailList object. This lets you do all manner of bizarre thing to the list object, but BEWARE! Using this can severely (and possibly irreparably) damage your mailing list! -o filename, --outputfile=filename Instead of configuring the list, print out a list's configuration variables in a format suitable for input using this script. In this way, you can easily capture the configuration settings for a particular list and imprint those settings on another list. file- name is the file to output the settings to. If filename is `-', standard out is used. -c, --checkonly The modified list is not actually changed. Only useful with -i. -v, --verbose Print the name of each attribute as it is being changed. Only useful with -i. -h, --help Print a small help text and exit NOTES
The options -o and -i are mutually exclusive. AUTHOR
Author of Mailman is the Mailman Cabal, see http://www.list.org/ for information. This manpage is written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> for Debian, but may be used by others. SEE ALSO
Mailman documentation on http://www.list.org/ and in /usr/share/doc/mailman. 2001-03-10 CONFIG_LIST(8)
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withlist(8) System Manager's Manual withlist(8) NAME
withlist - General framework for interacting with a Mailman mailing list object. SYNOPSIS
withlist [options] listname [args ...] There are two ways to use this script: interactively or programmatically. Using it interactively allows you to play with, examine and mod- ify a MailList object from Python's interactive interpreter. When running interactively, a MailList object called `m' will be available in the global namespace. It also loads the class MailList into the global namespace. Programmatically, you can write a function to operate on a MailList object, and this script will take care of the housekeeping (see below for examples). In that case, the general usage syntax is: OPTIONS
-l, --lock Lock the list when opening. Normally the list is opened unlocked (e.g. for read-only operations). You can always lock the file after the fact by typing `m.Lock()' Note that if you use this option, you should explicitly call m.Save() before exiting, since the interpreter's clean up procedure will not automatically save changes to the MailList object (but it will unlock the list). -i, --interactive Leaves you at an interactive prompt after all other processing is complete. This is the default unless the -r option is given. -r [module.]callable, --run [module.]callable This can be used to run a script with the opened MailList object. This works by attempting to import module (which must already be accessible on your sys.path), and then calling callable from the module. callable can be a class or function; it is called with the MailList object as the first argument. If additional args are given on the command line, they are passed as subsequent positional args to the callable. Note that module. is optional; if it is omitted then a module with the name callable will be imported. The global variable `r' will be set to the results of this call. -a, --all This option only works with the -r option. Use this if you want to execute the script on all mailing lists. When you use -a you should not include a listname argument on the command line. The variable `r' will be a list of all the results. -q, --quiet Suppress all status messages. -h, --help Print a small help text and exit. EXAMPLES
Here's an example of how to use the -r option. Say you have a file in the Mailman installation directory called `listaddr.py', with the following two functions: def listaddr(mlist): print mlist.GetListEmail() def requestaddr(mlist): print mlist.GetRequestEmail() Now, from the command line you can print the list's posting address by running the following from the command line: % bin/withlist -r listaddr mylist Loading list: mylist (unlocked) Importing listaddr ... Running listaddr.listaddr() ... mylist@example.com And you can print the list's request address by running: % bin/withlist -r listaddr.requestaddr mylist Loading list: mylist (unlocked) Importing listaddr ... Running listaddr.requestaddr() ... mylist-request@example.com As another example, say you wanted to change the password for a particular user on a particular list. You could put the following function in a file called `changepw.py': from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError def changepw(mlist, addr, newpasswd): try: mlist.setMemberPassword(addr, newpasswd) mlist.Save() except NotAMemberError: print 'No address matched:', addr and run this from the command line: % bin/withlist -l -r changepw mylist somebody@example.org foobar AUTHOR
Author of Mailman is the Mailman Cabal, see http://www.list.org/ for information. This manpage is written for Debian by Bernd S. Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>, but may be used by others. SEE ALSO
Mailman documentation on http://www.list.org/ and in /usr/share/doc/mailman. 2007-07-14 withlist(8)