On 09/16/2015 03:53 PM, Montanez, Victor wrote: > > I am wondering if there is a way to have several mailman lists created at > once via command line. I am talking about 100 lists or so. Otherwise creating > them through the GUI would take forever. > > Maybe creating a file with list name, password,etc and passing that file to > the create binary?
Create your file with multiple lines of the form list1 ow...@example.com password Assume it's named 'lists' Create a script like #! /bin/bash exec 5</path/to/lists while read -u 5 list owner passwd; do /path/to/mailman/bin/newlist -q $list $owner $passwd done Then either give it +x permission and run it with /path/to/script or run it via bash /path/to/script This will create the lists without sending email notifications to the owners. If you want the notifications and your Mailman is 2.1.20 or newer, you can replace the newlist -q option with -a. If you want the notifications and your Mailman is older, you can make the newlist command in the script /path/to/mailman/bin/newlist $list $owner $passwd </dev/null each invocation of newlist will produce a 'Hit enter to notify listname owner...' prompt on stdout but the response will be read from /dev/null so you don't have to 'Hit enter' for each one. See 'bin/newlist --help' for more info. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
