Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members with password

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Eric Smith wrote: >How do I add_members and allocate a password? > >For members who do not wish to subscribe through the web >interface, what is the way to subscribe them so that they >have a password for subsequent login? Subscribing by email allows specification of a password. Every list memb

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members with password

2012-08-28 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/28/2012 2:45 AM, Eric Smith wrote: How do I add_members and allocate a password? For members who do not wish to subscribe through the web interface, what is the way to subscribe them so that they have a password for subsequent login? Thanks Eric Smith When I was managing a Mailman install

[Mailman-Users] add_members with password

2012-08-28 Thread Eric Smith
How do I add_members and allocate a password? For members who do not wish to subscribe through the web interface, what is the way to subscribe them so that they have a password for subsequent login? Thanks Eric Smith -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members question

2011-11-16 Thread Rob McLear
That works! Thanks! -Rob On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rob McLear wrote: > >> If I type "./add_members -wn -r - listname" the shell pauses as if waiting >> for my input, but nothing I type has any effect. > > Try pressing control-d after you've finis

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members question

2011-11-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rob McLear wrote: If I type "./add_members -wn -r - listname" the shell pauses as if waiting for my input, but nothing I type has any effect. Try pressing control-d after you've finished typing, this is the unix end-of-file character. Geoff. ---

[Mailman-Users] add_members question

2011-11-16 Thread Rob McLear
I would like to be able to add individual members to lists from the command line, but I can't figure out the syntax exactly. I don't want to designate a file of list names; this is just to add single members without using the web interface. If I type "./add_members -wn -r - listname" the shell

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members with names

2008-08-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Southwell wrote: > >1. I have a file in the following format > >"member name in quotes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >and want to be able to add members using data from this file. add_members > add_members -r /absolute/path/to/file listname >reports > Bad/Invalid email address: "member name in quote

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members with names

2008-08-21 Thread David Southwell
On Thursday 21 August 2008 06:21:22 Don Hone wrote: > --On Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:10 AM -0700 David Southwell > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I have a file in the following format > > > > "member name in quotes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > and want to be able to add members using data fro

[Mailman-Users] add_members with names

2008-08-21 Thread David Southwell
Hi 1. I have a file in the following format "member name in quotes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] and want to be able to add members using data from this file. add_members add_members -r /absolute/path/to/file listname reports Bad/Invalid email address: "member name in quotes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are an

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
On 2/28/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I still don't understand the real issue here nor exactly how this would > be setup. It sounds like more time will be expended setting this up than it > would take to actually add a bunch of people to the non-member accept list. It depends on who

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Dragon
Bryan Carbonnell sent the message below at 11:29 2/28/2006: >On 2/28/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Allan Hansen wrote: > > >Thank you for clarifying, Mark. > > > > > >I do not yet have the knowledge to fix it, thus my comment. I do > > >appreciate the fix, though, because a number of my

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
On 2/28/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Hansen wrote: > >Thank you for clarifying, Mark. > > > >I do not yet have the knowledge to fix it, thus my comment. I do > >appreciate the fix, though, because a number of my subscribers do > >want to be subscribed inactive from a second address

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Dragon
Allan Hansen wrote: >Thank you for clarifying, Mark. > >I do not yet have the knowledge to fix it, thus my comment. I do >appreciate the fix, though, because a number of my subscribers do >want to be subscribed inactive from a second address that they use >for posts (and they don't want duplicates)

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Allan Hansen
Thank you for clarifying, Mark. I do not yet have the knowledge to fix it, thus my comment. I do appreciate the fix, though, because a number of my subscribers do want to be subscribed inactive from a second address that they use for posts (and they don't want duplicates). So I'll use your version

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: >Allan Hansen wrote: >> >>So Apple's version does, indeed, appear to be an Apple hack gone awry. >>I suppose it could be fixed by extracting the address before sending >>the member to setDeliveryStatus, but I'll refrain from that. > > >Yes, but why? Upon rereading my post, I s

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Hansen wrote: > >So Apple's version does, indeed, appear to be an Apple hack gone awry. >I suppose it could be fixed by extracting the address before sending >the member to setDeliveryStatus, but I'll refrain from that. Yes, but why? See below for fix, but the hack adds the --enabled option

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-28 Thread Allan Hansen
Mark, Bingo! The script from the sourceforge site works fine. Here are the diffs between that version and the version that Apple is providing. Note the change of address of Foundation and the ill-fated option in the Apple-supplied version to disable mail for the new subscriber. (< is official v

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Hansen wrote: > >I'm starting with an empty list called Test and a file, Long, >with a subscriber (me) in long format, and another file, Short, >with a subscriber (me) in short format: > >// Empty list >$/usr/share/mailman/bin/list_members -f Test > > >// The files Long and Short >$cat Long >

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-27 Thread Allan Hansen
At 8:13 -0800 2/27/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: >Allan Hansen wrote: >> >>add_members -r >>crashes with a traceback when given a file in the above format. >> >>The crash appears to happen in OldStyleMemberships.py >>add_members appears to strip all whitespace from the file. > >Please provide a trac

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: > >If I knew what the second part was, I'd offer a script to do so. As a >stopgap, you can get just a list of addresses by: > >cat | cut -d'<' -f 2 | cut -d'>' -f 1 And you could also just omit the '-f' option from the original list_members command. :-) -- Mark Sapiro <[EMA

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Hansen wrote: >The help for the command does not indicate a way to input names, and >the Python code itself appears to actively reject the notion. The code is not trying to reject 'names'. The 'name ' format produced by list_members should work for add_members. Actually, any of the formats

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Hansen wrote: > >add_members -r >crashes with a traceback when given a file in the above format. > >The crash appears to happen in OldStyleMemberships.py >add_members appears to strip all whitespace from the file. Please provide a traceback for analysis. (Note that despite the perhaps

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-26 Thread Allan Hansen
Thank you, Patrick, but I do need the subscriber names in the lists. Cutting them out would not work. Using bin/list_members, Perl and bin/sync_members lets me do what I need to do. I was just wondering about the apparent inability of add_members to accept names. The help for the command does not i

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-26 Thread Patrick Bogen
I don't know the answer, but you could always use a bit of perl glue to convert the first format to something add_members will understand more readily... If I knew what the second part was, I'd offer a script to do so. As a stopgap, you can get just a list of addresses by: cat | cut -d'<' -f 2 |

[Mailman-Users] add_members

2006-02-26 Thread Allan Hansen
Problem: list_members -f -o generates a file of members in the following format: name_of_subscriber sync_members -f takes a file of members in the above format. add_members -r crashes with a traceback when given a file in the above format. The crash appears to happen

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ren Bucholz wrote: >One last caveat: following the confirmation link works, as does >confirming your subscription once you get there. However, *cancelling* >your subscription from the website leads to the same "We hit a bug >message." I'm not including the URL in my verify.txt confirmation

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Ren Bucholz
One last caveat: following the confirmation link works, as does confirming your subscription once you get there. However, *cancelling* your subscription from the website leads to the same "We hit a bug message." I'm not including the URL in my verify.txt confirmation message (users just h

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Ren Bucholz
Mark is officially awesome. This works, and now my list can be confirmed-opt-in. Thanks so much! -Ren PS - If you want to see the final, working replacement for Add_Members, you can get it here: http://trubble.com/miscellaneous/new_add_members.txt On Dec 10, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Mark Sap

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ren Bucholz wrote: > >Quick question before trying this fix - can I just erase pending.pck, >or do I need to replace it with a non-corrupted version from another >list? You can just remove it. It will be recreated when needed. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gambler

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Ren Bucholz
On Dec 10, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > At this point, lists/listname/pending.pck is corrupt and has to be > removed for normal stuff to proceed. Quick question before trying this fix - can I just erase pending.pck, or do I need to replace it with a non-corrupted version from another l

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ren Bucholz wrote: > >I'm still having a problem with the confirmations, however. To recap, >I'm trying to use a modified version of add_members (call it >new_add_members) in order to subscribe people via my own webform (where >PHP executes add_members). I modified it because I'd like the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-12-10 Thread Ren Bucholz
This is a followup to an older message, but I wanted to say that Mark's fix worked for the error handling. Thanks, Mark! I'm still having a problem with the confirmations, however. To recap, I'm trying to use a modified version of add_members (call it new_add_members) in order to subscribe pe

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ren Bucholz wrote: > >So I created a >modified add_members and swapped this line: > >> mlist.ApprovedAddMember(userdesc, ack, 0) > >with this one: > >> mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote="Webpage") > >Running the new script on the command line generates this: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-28 Thread Ren Bucholz
Thanks very much to John for his advice on this. I've implemented it, and am now facing a slightly different problem. For those just tuning in, I'm using MM 2.1.5 and trying to add new list subscribers via the command line (so users don't see the default MM templates and I have control over th

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-21 Thread John Dennis
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:23 -0400, Ren Bucholz wrote: > Hello, > > I have a signup sheet that subscribes people to a Mailman list by using > PHP to call add_members (the PHP is below, FYI). My problem is that > add_members seems to ignore the email confirmation settings from the > admin interf

[Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-21 Thread Ren Bucholz
Hello, I have a signup sheet that subscribes people to a Mailman list by using PHP to call add_members (the PHP is below, FYI). My problem is that add_members seems to ignore the email confirmation settings from the admin interface. Even though my list is configured to send a confirmation me

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-07 Thread kalin mintchev
thanks Karl.. i think it was the subscribe/unsubscribe option. it was writing to many emails. now adding is quick thanks... > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> 7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! >> >

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-07 Thread Karl Fogel
"kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! > > > > No, I think it just means no on has an answer for you. > > > > Have you tried putting some debugging prints into the code or > > an

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-07 Thread kalin mintchev
> "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! > > No, I think it just means no on has an answer for you. > > Have you tried putting some debugging prints into the code or > anything? no.. but will it help turning subscribe/unsubscri

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread Karl Fogel
"kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! No, I think it just means no on has an answer for you. Have you tried putting some debugging prints into the code or anything? -Karl > > uhhh... it's going close to 5 1/2 hours now! i n

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! > uhhh... it's going close to 5 1/2 hours now! i need this list to be > operational today! what's the big deal with reading 1 lines of email > addresses. i would have read them by now a few dozen times. > what's up with add_member

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
uhhh... it's going close to 5 1/2 hours now! i need this list to be operational today! what's the big deal with reading 1 lines of email addresses. i would have read them by now a few dozen times. what's up with add_members?!? > hi all... > > i have a mailman version 2.0.13 running on an old

[Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i have a mailman version 2.0.13 running on an older box - rh 7.1 and i had to replace the members of a list. so i removed all. this took about 1 1/2 hours to finish and now i'm importing the members back in - they are about 10 000. it has been going on for about 3 hours. this is how i

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members from another script?

2003-08-15 Thread Richard Barrett
On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 07:51 pm, Bill Goffe wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.1.2 on a Debian system, and I'd like to call add_members from another script. In my application, users can only get to this point via a password, so I'm reasonably sure that they don't need address verification that

[Mailman-Users] add_members from another script?

2003-08-15 Thread Bill Goffe
I'm running Mailman 2.1.2 on a Debian system, and I'd like to call add_members from another script. In my application, users can only get to this point via a password, so I'm reasonably sure that they don't need address verification that the normal subscription mechanism provides. But, when I call

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2003-03-13 Thread Bolanle Akinpelu
Thanks. This solution works. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kyle Rhorer wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:20, Bolanle Akinpelu wrote: > > I can't add members from the stdin using the add_member command. For > > some reason, EOF characters does not bring an end to the members list > > addedd via stdin

[Mailman-Users] add_members

2003-03-13 Thread Bolanle Akinpelu
I can't add members from the stdin using the add_member command. For some reason, EOF characters does not bring an end to the members list addedd via stdin, so no member can be addedd this way except I add via an input file. How do I add members via the stdin? Thanks for every anticipated assitanc

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2003-03-13 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:20, Bolanle Akinpelu wrote: > I can't add members from the stdin using the add_member command. For > some reason, EOF characters does not bring an end to the members list > addedd via stdin I've had that problem too, so now I use echo (when I'm not using the web-based

[Mailman-Users] add_members

2003-03-13 Thread Bolanle Akinpelu
I can't add members from the stdin using the add_member command. For some reason, EOF characters does not bring an end to the members list addedd via stdin, so no member can be addedd this way except I add via an input file. How do I add members via the stdin? Thanks for every anticipated assitanc

[Mailman-Users] add_members

2002-04-11 Thread Steven Sobol
If using add_members and typing in a list of addresses on stdin, how do you specify end of list? EOF/ctrl-D doesn't work for some reason. (weird!) -- Steven J. Sobol Lead Developer/Tech Support ROI Supply, Inc. Helping manufacturers and distributors to improve service and reduce costs Phone: (