[Mailman-Users] Re: Deleting 20,000 pending subscriptions

2021-04-27 Thread John Elliot V | ProgClub
On 27/4/21 1:59 pm, Mark Sapiro wrote: > And looking through my script library, I see there is also a withlist script > at https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/discard_subs.py which may be easier to use > for this purpose. This one did the trick, thanks Mark. -- |_|O|_| ProgClub |_|_|O| Because

[Mailman-Users] Deleting 20,000 pending subscriptions

2021-04-26 Thread John Elliot V | ProgClub
Thanks to the advice of Mark Sapiro I have managed to stop the deluge of subscriptions to my lists, but I am left with the problem of having over 20,000 pending subscriptions awaiting my administration. What would be great is if there were a command line program I could run to delete all pending

[Mailman-Users] Re: Can we make lists invite only?

2021-04-24 Thread John Elliot V | ProgClub
On 21/4/21 4:22 am, Mark Sapiro wrote: > If you set SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET in mm_cfg.py, a saved form won't work. > > See the description of SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET, and also CAPTCHAS and > RECAPTCHA_* in Defaults.py SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET seems to have done the trick! Thanks Mark. -- |_|O|_|

[Mailman-Users] Re: Can we make lists invite only?

2021-04-19 Thread John Elliot V | ProgClub
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. On 19/4/21 10:49 pm, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On April 18, 2021 6:43:53 AM PDT, John Elliot V | ProgClub > wrote: >> On the Privacy options section I set 'advertised' to 'No' and >> 'subscribe_policy' to 'Require approval' but that do

[Mailman-Users] Can we make lists invite only?

2021-04-19 Thread John Elliot V | ProgClub
Hi there. I've been using Mailman 2.1 for ages and I love it but recently I have a problem with thousands of messages per day from spammers sending subscription requests. On the Privacy options section I set 'advertised' to 'No' and 'subscribe_policy' to 'Require approval' but that doesn't work