[Mailman-Developers] add_members and nomail

[Scot Hacker]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 10/20/2012 11:06 AM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>> 
>> Here's a simple 2.x diff in case it's useful to anyone:
>> https://gist.github.com/3924229
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I'm inclined to implement this for the 2.1 branch, but my taste is to do

Sorry for response delay - no time to learn bazaar and launchpad right now for this, so I appreciate your offer. 

> it differently. I would prefer to have a -n|--nomail option which if
> specified would set the added members to nomail by admin, the default in
> the absence of the option being current behavior. Thus, no need for
> --enable-mail=<y|n>.
> 

Absolutely - anything that can be scripted easily would work fine for me, and for others too I imagine. 

> Also, If the member to be added is already a member, I wouldn't change
> its delivery option.
> 

Hmm, not sure about that part - my implementation sometimes includes duplicate addresses, relying on the mailman import to weed them out. So I would *prefer* to have the option changed for existing members. But if that doesn't sit well with you, I understand - my script will just have to be smarter about it.

Thanks,
Scot


> Would such an implementation work for you?




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