[Mailman-Users] Invitation time limit

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Jul 15 20:30:58 CEST 2008


Michael Welch wrote:
> Just got the following from somebody that wanted to participate and I
> invited. Is the 3 day limit built in and/or a default? It sure seems
> short to me, I would think that 14 days would be much more
> appropriate. As in this particular case, three days is a common
> length for folks to be gone for long weekends. And, it makes
> administrators work more than they should have to, what with having
> to sign people up more than once.


The limit is a global Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting 
(PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE) with a default of three days which applies to all 
pending requests.


> Also, it would be helpful to be able to see the current list of
> invitees, but I cannot find a web page that displays that.


It's not in the web UI. There's a script at 
<http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/list_pending>, but that won't help 
without command line access.

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