Hi Mailmen and -women,
I'd like to administrate some ~20 email lists of a team of people
working together via mailman. Once a user leaves the team, I should
unsubscribe this user from all lists that he's on. How do I do this
without having to click through 20 web interfaces?
First I thought, hey, I simply send an unsubscribe email, just like the
subscribe email. Well, that doesn't work though, since unsubscription
always requires the user password, which I don't have of course. So I
searched around and found this thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-July/037815.html
about exactly this. Now, that suggests a global change by patching a
python script. But since the mail server I'm using is actually for a
whole institute, the administrator probably has little interest to
globally change his Mailman/Commands/cmd_unsubscribe.py just because of
my 20 mailing lists, in particular since some of his other lists may be
more security sensitive than mine. In addition, if I try to patch this
file rather than having some patch from somebody who actually knows
python ;-) he probably won't like it anyway...
So I continued searching and stumbled across the possibility of doing
this via wget:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-December/041214.html
and
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-December/041220.html
Wow, that would be fantastic! :-) I could simply shell script that, not
even worrying whether the user is subscribed to all 20 lists and just
batch-unsubscribe (if the user wouldn't be on a given list, nothing
would happen, so that's OK) Now, I'm not super sure I got the command
line right, this is what I tried:
wget --post-data="adminpw=foobar&unsubscribees=m...@somewhere.edu"
http://serveraddress/mailman/admin/mailinglistname/members/members/remove
and I also tried to directly enter
http://serveraddress/mailman/admin/mailinglistname/members/members/remove?adminpw=foobar&unsubscribees=m...@somewhere.edu
into my browser. In both cases what I got back was:
<head><title>Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9</title></head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff><h2>Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9</h2>
<p><h3>We're sorry, we hit a bug!</h3>
<p>Please inform the webmaster for this site of this
problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been
explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the
Mailman error logs.
and now I'm lost :-\ Can somebody help me? How can I unsubscribe a given
user from a couple of mailing lists at the same time without having to
go through the clumsy web interface for each of the mailing lists?
Your help is greatly appreciated - thank you very much!
Kind regards,
Rafael
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