[Mailman-Users] mass edit on a mailing list

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Wed Nov 14 18:41:15 CET 2012


On 11/14/2012 9:11 AM, jdd wrote:
> Le 14/11/2012 17:56, Mark Sapiro a écrit :
> 
>> People who have only web access to the list and know the administrator
>> password can visit the admin pages and make changes, but even they
>> cannot directly change a members address without confirmation from the
>> member, and there is no function for mass change of domain.
> 
> can't you:
> 
> * extract the list
> * edit it in any editor
> * mass subscribe with the edited list
> * eventually remove the old list (or wait to bounce mechanism to do ità


Yes, but this is not "directly" changing the member's addresses. It is
adding the new addresses and removing the old addresses and in the
process reverting all of the users' options to defaults, assigning them
a new, random password and possibly sending them goodbye and/or welcome
messages.

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