Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Rajeev S
Hi Barry, Although I haven't had time to go through the code, I'm liking what I'm seeing here on the mailing list. Just a quick comment. [...] Ideally, because this is a command line tool aimed and users, there should be a manpage for mmclient. Fortunately, it's *really* easy to write

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rajeev S writes: Also maybe you can try making your tool a little more smart? Like lets say I try to create a list abhil...@raj.com and there is no domain raj.com in the database, so instead of just showing error maybe you can ask the user: The domain raj.com does not exist, Do

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org: Rajeev S writes: Also maybe you can try making your tool a little more smart? Like lets say I try to create a list abhil...@raj.com and there is no domain raj.com in the database, so instead of just showing error maybe you can ask the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 29, 2014, at 05:20 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: Deleting a list/domain requires an (internal) scheduler. Does Mailman have one? A broom job that can be called via cron? Sort of, but the way these are handled currently are individual scripts that each have to be added to cron. ... and

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Patrick Ben Koetter writes: I doubt anyone that igorant of e-mail and how it works will ever make it to the MM3 command line client, but yes, such cases do exist. I think they're actually likely to be reasonably common. However I think the use case prepare Mailman to handle mail for a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 30, 2014, at 03:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Probably scripts should not be using commands that need multiple confirmations, though. Agreed! -Barry ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

2014-05-29 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org: Patrick Ben Koetter writes: I doubt anyone that igorant of e-mail and how it works will ever make it to the MM3 command line client, but yes, such cases do exist. I think they're actually likely to be reasonably common. However I think