On Jul 6, 2004, at 5:27 PM, malgosia askanas (staff) wrote:
Brad Knowles wrote:
Hope that helps to explain why an administrative email interface can be useful.
There's no question that an e-mail interface can be useful. The value of this was recognized a long time ago. Mailman does already include an e-mail interface.
I am sorry if I am being really dense; but what _is_ the administrative email
interface to Mailman? For example, how _can_ a list administrator unsub
a bunch of listmembers via email? I cannot for the world of me find any
documentation on this.
Send 'help' to the list -request address. You'll receive the command list back.
I am in the process of deciding whether to move a fairly large list-hosting
operation from majordomo to Mailman. Although most of our listowners use
exclusively MajorCool, there are a few -- some with very large lists -- who
do all their subscription and unsubscription operations via email. I want to
be able to tell them how they can do this in Mailman, but I haven't been able
to find out. Yet I see these hope-arousing little hints, such as Brad's above,
that it can be done...
I don't think it can as distributed. Looking through cmd_subscribe and cmd_unsubscribe I don't see anything specific for administrators. That said, it shouldn't be too hard to add sub and unsub admin functions though, and cmd_who should provide the clues to build them.
Actually, I'm kind of surprised no one's done this. If I get some time over the next few days I might take a stab at it.
-Jeff
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