[Mailman-Users] Deleting Address in accept_these_nonmembers (was Add to filter from commandline?)

[Barry Finkel]

>From a posting back in August:

Willendrup, Peter Kjær wrote:
>> 
>> I have two mailinglists sitting on the same machine, one being the general
>> user mailinglist (A) and the other one the software developer list (B) (B is
>> reachable by a commonly known 'support' email adress).
>> 
>> Is there an easy way to allow members of list A to write messages to list B
>> without being members of B?
>
>
>See
><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103>
>for a patch to allow this.
>
>
>> My current solution is to add the members of A to the accepts filter of list
>> B - something that I am currently doing using the web interface...
>> 
>> My real question is: Is it possible to add addresses to the 'accepts' filter
>> of a mailinglist from the commandline?

And Mark Sapiro replied:
>Not directly, but in a shell script you could prepare a file that looks like
>
>mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('usera at example.com')
>mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('userb at example.com')
>
>and so on for all the non-members you want to add and then run
>
>bin/config_list -i filename listname
>
>where filename is the name of the above file.
>
>Alternatively, you could just prepare an input file that looks like
>
>accept_these_nonmembers = [
>'usera at example.com',
>'userb at example.com',
>'userc at example.net',
>'userd at example.net',
>]
>
>wherein all the addresses (not just adds) for accept_these_nonmembers
>are listed, and then run the same config_list command. See
>
>bin/config_list --help

I have implemented a script to add an address to

     accept_these_nonmembers

in a collection of Mailman lists, and I am wondering if there is a
similar mechanism for deleting an address in

     accept_these_nonmembers

in a collection of Mailman lists.
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