[Mailman-Users] Building an announce list

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Tue Mar 7 18:55:07 CET 2006


Matthew Clarkson wrote:

>We are currently transitioning from majordomo to mailman.  Anyways, we 
>create announce lists in majordomo by a custom script which will take 
>all the lists and concatenate them into one file, order them by 
>alphabetical order, and then run unique to remove duplicates.
>I was wondering if there is anyway that mailman can do something similar 
>by a built in function (I can't find one).  If not, is there any way 
>that I can by command line, extract all the address' associated with a 
>list and then run our same script on it, and then inject the address' 
>into another list (the announce list in this case)?


See the following FAQ articles

<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.005.htp>

<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp>

Also the following Mailman command line tools

bin/list_members
bin/add_members
bin/sync_members

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