[Mailman-Users] Run a script when new lists are created

[Mark Sapiro]

Meike Reichle wrote:
>
>I am in the process of moving all out mailing lists to mailman. So far, 
>everything went rather smoothly, but there's on last problem I am trying 
>to solve: When I create a new mailing list, I have to add the new 
>addresses to our mailservers' whitelists. I wrote a script that does 
>that, but until now it is run by cron. I could start the script from the 
>newlist command, but I don't know whether this command is also used when 
>a new list is created using the webinterface (which is more likely).

It is not.

>So, my question is: What is the best way to have a script run, whenever 
>a new list is created?
>I am using mailman2.1.5 with exim on a Solaris box.

In mm_cfg.py, you set MTA = 'SomeName'. Then you create a python script
Mailman/MTA/SomeName.py with a create() and a remove() function and
these are called respectively whenever a list is created or removed.
See the existing Mailman/MTA/Manual.py and Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py
scripts for examples.

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