This is excellent advice. Thank you. I'm using Mailman 2.1, and plan to u/g to 2.1.1 as well.

You stated, "do what you wish with the nomail people." I suppose I have to add them as mail-recipients and then set nomail by hand. There shouldn't be too many of them :)

Thanks.

</edg>

--On Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:53 PM -0500 Matthew Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

* Ed Greenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What I'd like to do is to delete the list and recreate it, then add the
users back. I can extract a list of users and re-add them, but I cannot
figure out how to save their settings (such as digest and nomail).

Is this possible, or should I just tell them that their options are
going  to be lost.
The easy way would be to tell them all options will be lost.  But if you
want a bit more work, you could save that info.  Just will take a few
extra steps.  You didn't say which mailman you use, which only means the
-f option won't be availiable on mailman 2.0.x (which is to preserve the
full name), so this information is based on mailman 2.0.13

This gives you all the regular (non-digest) members in a file called
regular.members
# bin/list_members -rpo regular.members LISTNAME

This will put the digest members in digest.members
# bin/list_members -dpo digest.members LISTNAME

If your using mailman 2.1 then you can get the nomail users
# bin/list_members -npo nomail.members LISTNAME

Then you can readd them using bin/add_members  And I'll give you mailman
2.1.1 examples since now would be a good time to upgrade if your redoing
the list.  Highly recommended upgrading to 2.1.1

# bin/add_members -r regular.members LISTNAME
# bin/add_members -d digest.members LISTNAME

And you can do what you wish with the nomail people.

--
Matthew Davis
http://dogpound.vnet.net/

"Freedom defined is freedom denied." -The Illuminatus

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