[Mailman-Users] mass edit on a mailing list

2012-11-14 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
Let us assume that a substantial fraction of members of a nationwide 
mailing list (say about 110 on 1135) have changed domain, i.e.


  u...@domain1.tld and u...@domain2.tld

have now migrated to u...@domain2.tld

Is there a way by which the *moderators* (which are sparse in different 
institutions and have access to the mailing list only via the web 
interface) can apply a mass edit (changing domain1 and domain2 into 
domain3) ?


Or can that be done via line-mode commands only by the *administrator*
(who has the list server in house) ?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mass edit on a mailing list

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

Is there a way by which the *moderators* (which are sparse in different 
institutions and have access to the mailing list only via the web 
interface) can apply a mass edit (changing domain1 and domain2 into 
domain3) ?


Moderators, i.e. people who have only web access to the list and know
only the moderator password, cannot make any membership changes. They
can only handle held messages and requests via the admindb interface.

People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator
password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they
cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the
member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.


Or can that be done via line-mode commands only by the *administrator*
(who has the list server in house) ?


The server doesn't have to be in house, but one does need command
line access and write permission on the Mailman installation. If one
has such access, the script at
http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py can do
exactly what you want.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mass edit on a mailing list

2012-11-14 Thread jdd

Le 14/11/2012 17:56, Mark Sapiro a écrit :


People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator
password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they
cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the
member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.


can't you:

* extract the list
* edit it in any editor
* mass subscribe with the edited list
* eventually remove the old list (or wait to bounce mechanism to do ità

?

just an idea :-)

jdd


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Re: [Mailman-Users] mass edit on a mailing list

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/14/2012 9:11 AM, jdd wrote:
 Le 14/11/2012 17:56, Mark Sapiro a écrit :
 
 People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator
 password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they
 cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the
 member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.
 
 can't you:
 
 * extract the list
 * edit it in any editor
 * mass subscribe with the edited list
 * eventually remove the old list (or wait to bounce mechanism to do ità


Yes, but this is not directly changing the member's addresses. It is
adding the new addresses and removing the old addresses and in the
process reverting all of the users' options to defaults, assigning them
a new, random password and possibly sending them goodbye and/or welcome
messages.

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