Barry A. Warsaw wrote: ... > In MM2.0.x you can't know why the flag was enabled, so in general I > don't think it's a great idea to just toggle the flag off and start > delivering mail to all your users. You could write a script that > trolls through the membership, looking for folks with that flag set > and then send them a specific reminder, but that's a fair bit of work.
I see. That's in fact not too easy. > MM2.1 is, of course, much better. Not only do you now know exactly > why that flag was flipped, but there's a cron script that you can use > to do the "hey, your subscription is disabled" reminder. When you > upgrade to MM2.1, anybody who's flag is currently set unfortunately > gets the "unknown" reason for the flag, but you can tell the cron > script to start notifying the unknown-disables and then after X number > of notifications, delete them or whatever you want. So I should move to MM2.1 ASAP. :-) Thanks a lot for the enlightment, and congrats for the great improvements in Mailman! It appears that it has blown away Majordomo almost completely... ciao - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 pager +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
