[Mailman-Users] Command-line to the rescue?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 02/12/2014 07:51 AM, Richard wrote:
>
> ...ONE of those key administration tasks that
> doesn't work is the management of "pending moderator requests."
>
> And, using the mail reply option isn't sufficient because we no longer
> have all the original administrator emails to reply to!
>
> DISCARD
>
> So... /usr/lib/mailman/bin/discard to the rescue?
>
> All 'discard -h' says is:
>
> Discard held messages.
>
> Usage:
>      discard [options] file ...
>
> Options:
>      --help / -h
>          Print this help message and exit.
>
>      --quiet / -q
>          Don't print status messages.
>
> Um... Obvious question: What goes in the file?


The held message file(s) which are in Mailman's data/directory with 
names like heldmsg-LISTNAME-nnnn.*


> I'd also have expected it to present me with an option to specify which
> list? A "from" email address? And what if I want to accept or reject
> instead of discard?
>
> Is there a different utility I should be looking at?


See <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/list_requests>.

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