On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 20:43, Trek*Spot Webmaster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm the one who started this thread on unsubscribing, and your idea sounds
> good. How exactly can I go about setting this up? (I'm completely new to
> MailMan.)
>
> Curry O'Day
> Trek*Spot Webmaster
> http://www.trekspot.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Anthony Carmody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] un-subscription problems
>
>
There are a couple of ways of doing this. The easiest is to add the
email address to a file and then let a mailman script (activated via an
hourly cron job) unsubscribe the user.
You should be able to modify the scripts below to write a mail Script to
collect the emails into a file, and a mailman script to pull the email
addresses out of the list.
===
A client wanted it to happen immediately so I wrote this (the email
addresses have been changed to protect the innocent):
- In the aliases file, add an entry for the unsubscribe email:
volleyball-unsub: "|/home/mailman/ext/v-unsub"
- Create the directory /home/mailman/ext
mkdir /home/mailman/ext
chown mail /home/mailman/ext
chmod 0700 /home/mailman/ext
- In /home/mailman/ext create the script "v-unsub":
#!/home/mailman/ext/bash_mailman
# This script runs as user mailman, but is only executable by user mail
# script to unsubscribe user from volleyball list
# Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Subject: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNSUB=`grep -i "Subject: " - |head -1`
for i in $UNSUB
do
/home/mailman/bin/remove_members volleyball $i
done
# End of script
- Make the script executable:
chmod a+x /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub
- In the /etc/smrsh directory:
ln -s /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub v-unsub
- Copy and modify bash so that it runs as user mailman:
cp /bin/bash /home/mailman/ext/bash_mailman
chown mailman.mailman /home/mailman/ext/bash_mailman
chmod 0555 /home/mailman/ext/bash_mailman
chmod u+s,g+s /home/mailman/ext/bash_mailman
===
The directory /home/mailman/ext has rights such that only the mail user
can
access the files within. The copied version of "bash" now called
"bash_mailman" has it's ownership changed to mailman and then has it's
UID
and GID bits set. Any script that runs using it as a shell will now run
as
the user mailman with group mailman.
Wahoo!
Hope this helps - Jon Carnes
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