----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
Thanks, Stephen That looks like an interesting solution. I'll make a note of it for next time. The docs describe how to start "withlist", but I think I would have to learn the internals of the Python code pretty thoroughly to be able to reproduce this from scratch. Is "m" a standard variable automagically defined by withlist to be the mail list mentioned on the python command line? Is mm_cfg.DISCARD a function that HandleRequest is expecting to call to do the real work, or a constant that tells HandleRequest which of several predefined tasks it should do? What's going on in the ...? And what will it prompt me with that I need to hit <return>? I also think this answers one of my previous questions - it would have been useful to ask the developers list. As you suggest, writing a one line loop of Python code would be the standard solution there. Is there any other place where this "standard" solution would be found? Robert > 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
