Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 08/02/2015 10:15 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's 
> E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?


Unless you have Mailman 2.1.20 or newer in which case there is an
Address Change subsection in the admin Membership Management... section.

With command line access, you can use Mailman's bin/clone_member, but
many (most?) list admins don't have this access.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's 
> E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?
> 

If you have shell access,
https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py is quite
nifty.


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[Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Robert Heller writes:

 > Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a
 > subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass
 > subscription?

Yes.  Addresses don't change frequently, are even less frequently
reassigned to other users.  In most cases the user does it for
herself.

 > There is no obvious place to change a subscriber's E-Mail address
 > that does not entail going through the mailman confirmation
 > process.

Somebody needs to authenticate, otherwise all kinds of mischief are
possible (and in the past occurred frequently).  If the user can't, it
has to be the admin, and administrative removal plus administrative
subscription is the obvious way to change a subscriber's address,
since Mailman 2 has no concept of "subscriber", only "subscribed
address".

Mailman 3 does have a notion of "user" apart from a subscription, so
it is possible to change the address of a user.

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[Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-02 Thread Robert Heller
Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's 
E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription?

I have a subscriber who needs to change her E-Mail address for a list, and
since she does not (yet?) know how to use her (new) iPhone, and is basically
unable to respond to mailman confirmation message. There is no obvious place
to change a subscriber's E-Mail address that does not entail going through the
mailman confirmation process.

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