>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Echlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> Stuff I looked at: Robert> - 2004 mailman list messages. Robert> - google for "discard mailman script" Robert> - mailman faq (search for discard) Robert> - docs on www.list.org Robert> - bin/discard.py seems to require some sort of a file as input, Robert> but there are no docs for it on http://www.list.org/site.html, Robert> where other command line programs seem to be documented. Robert> If it's like Skip's mmdiscard.py, http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/ Robert> then it needs a file created by looking at the web interface. Robert> - David Wolfskill's dispose.py seems to require a file input like discard. Robert> - bulk-vette requires an include file called mailman, Robert> which doesn't seem to exist in my version (suggestions??) Didn't you find the standard solution? To wit: As user mailman (I think actually you just need write permissions in the relevant places, so group mailman Works For Me YMMV) execute: python -i bin/withlist listname Then type: >>> m.Lock() >>> from Mailman import mm_cfg >>> h = m.GetHeldMessageIds() >>> for i in h: m.HandleRequest(i,mm_cfg.DISCARD) ... <return> >>> m.Save() >>> <ctrl-d> The triple punctuation are Python prompts; you don't type those, you wait for them to appear and then type. All the punctuation (including empty parens) must be typed as shown, capitalization must be exactly as shown. The stuff in <angle brackets> are names of single keys (Enter and Control + d), not to be typed literally. On a Red Hat Linux system you probably will need to use python2, python2.2 or python2.3 instead of just python, because python corresponds to the Golden Oldie 1.5.2 version. Caveat: I haven't actually used this since we installed 2.1.5 (the previous version was 2.0.13), but a test (on a list with no held messages---it's the admin's playpen list, I'm not going to do this on a live list unless I know it's all spam) showed no syntax errors or anything like that, should still work. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/