[Mailman-Users] Discard/Ban all messages pending moderation

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> If there are so many that this is unwieldy, you could do this with a
> withlist script. Something along the lines of the following totally
> untested script:
> 
> from Mailman import mm_cfg
> def discard(mlist):
>     for id in mlist.GetHeldMessageIds():
>         sender = mlist.GetRecord(id)[1]
>         if sender not in mlist.discard_these_nonmembers:
>             mlist.discard_these_nonmembers.append(sender)
>         mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD)
> 
> 
> See 'bin/withlist --help' for what to do with this.


It occurred to me that there is a problem with the above, namely it
doesn't save the list so it will probably discard all the held messages
but not update discard_these_nonmembers.

The following is still untested, but should be better

from Mailman import mm_cfg
def discard(mlist):
    if not mlist.Locked():
        mlist.Lock()
    for id in mlist.GetHeldMessageIds():
        sender = mlist.GetRecord(id)[1]
        if sender not in mlist.discard_these_nonmembers:
            mlist.discard_these_nonmembers.append(sender)
        mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD)
    mlist.Save()
    mlist.Unlock()


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