[Mailman-Users] Can I get rid of an admin request?

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

If you are afraid of moving to the 2.0 series try mailman 1.1. It has
withlist. On the other hand, if you feel adventurous, you might try
copying withlist from mailman 1.1. It will probably work 'cause it will
import the functions from your current version. Another options is to hack
some python yourself. Read about the marshal module on you python docs (or
in www.pythons.org/doc/current/lib/module-marshal.html). The <listname>.db
file is the marshalisation (is that a word?) of a python dictionary.

Unfortunately those are the only ways 'cause the pending posts aren't
stored in external files (at least up until version 1.0 which I have),
they are written inside the .db file for the list.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, paz wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> 
> : On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, paz wrote:
> : 
> : > [...]
> : > 
> : > The admin request just keeps showing up every day; there doesn't seem to
> : > be any normal way for me to dismiss it. Can I empty a queue or something
> : > like that to toss out the garbage so that I will stop getting the 
> : > "1 (insert listname here) admin request(s) waiting" messages?
> : > 
> : > I've poked around in Mailman but can't find anything that I can clear or
> : > reset.
> : 
> : the low level way of eliminating post requests is (at least for mailman
> : 1.1)
> : 
> : # su - mailman
> : $ python -i bin/withlist -l <listname>
> : Loading list: <listname> (locked)
> : >>> del m.requests['post']
> : >>> m.Save()
> : >>> <Ctrl+D>
> : 
> : don't try this without reading bin/withlist to understand what it does,
> : and it doesn't hurt to make a backup of mailman before you do it either.
> : 
> : Regards, Leo
> 
> 
> Okay, thanks -
> 
> Actually, I'm running 1.09b, so it doesn't have bin/withlist available.
> It's been running fine ever since 1.09b was introduced without a hitch, so
> I figured, not broken, so don't fix it...  Well, this time, I can't figure
> out how to fix it! Heh...
> 
> I might give a shot at loading 2.x over the top of this thing, but I
> haven't successfully loaded the latest version on a server at work yet, so
> I figured I'd wait until I could at least do that correctly. Meanwhile, I
> rummaged thoughout the system to try to find a mail message queue, to no
> avail. I guess I'll ignore the requests until I can upgrade the program.