[Mailman-Users] Changing config.db using cron

Greg Ward gward at mems-exchange.org
Fri Oct 26 23:20:14 CEST 2001


On 26 October 2001, Leo So said:
> Hi I want to (semi)randomly rotate the footer appended
> to the mailman mails using cron. I guess the footer info
> is stored as binary in config.db. What is the best way
> to do it? Thanks!!

Use The Source, Luke.

Read enough Mailman source to understand the right way to access and
modify config.db.  Probably the scripts in ~mailman/bin are a good place
to start.  Then Write a Python script that changes the footer to
whatever you like.  Run that script periodically.

        Greg




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