[Mailman-Developers] Creation/deletion of liststhrough-the-web

[Ben Burnett]

------- Original Copy -------
>Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Creation/deletion of
liststhrough-the-web
>Date: 05/09/2001 3:23 PM
>From: Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu>
>To: barry@digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw), "Jay R. Ashworth"
<jra@baylink.com>
>Cc: mailman-developers@python.org

>>The list creation message is always sent currently.  Does
it make
>>sense to be able to inhibit that?
>
>Yes.  I currently manually go in and fix some things that
just can't be set
>from defaults easily before letting the admin know. 
Ideally I'd like a button
>for "(re)send list creation message now", because what I do
is run newlist,
>hit ctl-z, go off and make my changes, fg it, and let it
send the list message...

FWIW I do sort of the same thing.  I have hacked newlist to
accept another option as described below.

[mailman@mail riders_connection]$ ./bin/newlist
--help                                                                                                          
Create a new, unpopulated mailing list.

Usage: %(PROGRAM)s [options] listname listadmin-addr
admin-password

Options:

    -q
    --quiet
        Normally the administrator is notified by email
(after a prompt) that
        their list has been created.  This option suppresses
that
        notification and the prompting.

    -s file
    --saveemail=file
        Append the email that is sent to the administrator
of the new list
        to file.  This is in addition to sending the email
to the administrator
        unless -q is used.

    -o file
    --output=file
        Append the alias setting recommendations to file, in
addition to
        printing them to standard output.

    -h/--help
        Print this help text and exit.

You can specify as many of the arguments as you want on the
command line:
you will be prompted for the missing ones.

Note that listnames are forced to lowercase.

[mailman@mail riders_connection]$

a patch for this against 2.0.3 is attached if anyone is
interested.

-Ben