[Mailman-Developers] add_members and nomail

[Scot Hacker]

On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't see this as a problem. If you try to add the same address twice
> with a --nomail option, the first add will succeed and set nomail and
> the second add will fail and do nothing, but the result is the address
> is added with nomail set.

> The only situation in which this makes a difference is if the address
> is already a member without nomail, which would only occur if it was
> added previously by some other process or if it was added previously
> and the user subsequently enabled delivery. Either way, I think the
> right thing is for add_members --nomail to not disable delivery for an
> existing member.

True - I guess it's only happenstance that my script subscribes the yesmail members first, then does a second pass for the nomail members. I could easily reverse this order in my script. Problem solved.


> Note, if you want to just set some or all users to nomail, see
> <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/set_nomail.py>.

Also a good option! Thanks for that. 

./s


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