[Mailman-Users] Re: un-subscription problems

[Anthony Carmody]

Yup yep yes,

I have worked this much out. Now my problem is getting sendmail to execute the script.
I have had sensible comments like "Whatever you had to do to make the mailman wrapper work is probably the same thing
here" However, this instance of Mailman is installed automatically by my service network provider ********.

asking I/NSP tech support questions is sometimes like dealing with an evil robot parrot.

/Anthony



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
To: "Anthony Carmody" <carmoda at interfaceergonomics.com>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: un-subscription problems


: On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 23:37, Anthony Carmody wrote:
: > ~gulp~ I am not a python programmer. and the users of the list needing the unsubscribe address are artists [do i
need to
: > say more?]  ..and although I am not 'completely' new to Mailman, I have only had it on my system for a few months
AND in
: > a moderately vanilla state. I lease a Virtual Server without smrsh that I can see, and I only have a pseudos-root
: > permission. I have virtual domains making it a little trickier. I have searched the archives and have not been able
to
: > find anything that works for me as of yet.
: >
: > I suppose what I need to know is: Is there a script [adding addresses to a temp file, hourly cron is fine] that
someone
: > 'has working' that they can post me that does not need smrsh and has the alias entries examples. preferably
something
: > that I can pass the variables to like so:
: >
: > <mailinlistname>-unsub:            "|/usr/lib/mailman/localbin/unsubscribe.sh <mailinlistname>- <virtualdomain>-"
: >
:
: How about something like this:
:
:  - In the aliases file, add an entry for the unsubscribe email:
:      volleyball-unsub:  "|/home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.alias"
:
:  - Create the directory /home/mailman/ext
:      mkdir /home/mailman/ext
:      chown mail /home/mailman/ext
:      chmod 0700 /home/mailman/ext
:
:  - In /home/mailman/ext create the script "v-unsub.alias":
:   #! /bin/bash
:   #
:   # Script to unsubscribe user from volleyball list.
:   # Loads file /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.txt
:   # That file is later processed by a Mailman cron job
:   #   /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.cron
:   #
:   #   Mail to volleyball-unsub at haht.com
:   #   Subject: unsubscribe username at domain.com
:   UNSUB=`grep -i "Subject: " - |head -1 |cut -f2- -d:`
:   for i in $UNSUB
:   do
:      echo $i >> /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.txt
:   done
:   # End of script
:
:  - Create the script v-unsub.cron
:   #! /bin/bash
:   #
:   # Script to unsubscribe user from volleyball list.
:   # Removes users found in file /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.txt
:   # The file is loaded via an unsubscribe alias: v-unsub.alias
:   for i in `cat /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.txt`
:   do
:      /home/mailman/bin/remove_members volleyball $i
:   done
:
:  - Make the scripts executable:
:      chmod a+x /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.alias
:      chmod a+x /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.cron
:
:  - Add the script to the Mailman cron jobs:
:   su mailman
:   cron -i
:     15 * * * *   /home/mailman/ext/v-unsub.cron
:
: ===
: There is no error checking on any of the scripts and basically anyone
: can unsubscribe anyone (or everyone) from the list, but it should work
: as a base.
:
: Take care - Jon Carnes
:
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