[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>So, if digest_send_periodic is No (so that digests are not sent every day as
>indicated by the default senddigests cron entry), senddigests will not force
>the
>list to send a new digest even with the -l option?
Correct.
>If you host many lists and
>one list/customer wants messages sent only on a specific schedule, and you
>don't
>want to degrade the ability for the entire list server, then the only real
>option is to cook up some recipe which keeps mail intended for the list in a
>separate queue and only gets added to the list at the time that you want a
>digest created and sent?
There are other ways to address this. See below.
>To be more specific about my scenario, we are attempting to migrate from
>Majordomo to Mailman. We have a list that sends out change control
>notifications on a twice weekly basis. In the majordomo configuration,
>individual messages are collected in a work folder and when a Perl script
>called
>'digests', written for majordomo, is run from cron, the messages in the work
>folder are gathered into a single digest message and sent to the list
>subscribers.
>
>Perhaps I am taking the wrong approach with Mailman? Is there another way to
>deliver a similar service without cooking up my own scheme, or has someone
>already contributed such a tool/scheme?
Here are a couple of possible approaches.
First the kludgy approach.
Set the crontab to run a script instead of cron/senddigests.
The script would be something like (warning! may have syntax errors)
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/path/to/mailman
special=the_special_listname
for list in `$prefix/bin/list_lists --bare`; do
if [[ $list != $special ]] ; then
$prefix/cron/senddigests -l $list
fi
done
Then have a separate crontab entry to run
cron/senddigests -l the_special_listname
The more elegant IMO approach.
Set the list in question digest_send_periodic = No
Copy cron/senddigests to cron/senddigests2 or whatever name you like
and make sure the copy is chmod +x
Change line 85 in the copy from
if mlist.digest_send_periodic:
to
if True:
Then add a separate crontab entry to run
cron/senddigests2 -l the_special_listname
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San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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