[Mailman-Users] duplicating a mailman list?
Barry A. Warsaw
barry at python.org
Sun Oct 20 03:46:09 CEST 2002
>>>>> "EZ" == Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu> writes:
EZ> [I've used mailman for a few years now, but I'm new to this
EZ> list.]
EZ> How do I create an identical duplicate of a list by another
EZ> new name?
EZ> I'm using mailman 2.0.13. I'm generally very happy with it.
EZ> When I need to create a new list, it takes me time to create
EZ> it, b/c for the most part I want to configure that list
EZ> identically to other lists (esp. wrt privacy/protection
EZ> features). Specifically I want to turn on/off certain
EZ> features, etc. I do so by creating a new list, then going
EZ> through the Web interface for the old and new list, and
EZ> setting the options by hand. It's a pain and time consuming.
Erez, take a look at bin/config_list. What you can do is set up some
basic templates for values you want in common on all your lists, then
install them via bin/config_list. Note that you do /not/ have to have
all the variables in your template that are given by config_list -o.
If you omit some from your template, they won't be changed in the
target mailing list.
-Barry
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