[Mailman-Users] Problem with AOL

[David Andrews]

Thanks!  As usual You're the man!

Dave

p.s.  I suppose I could edit and use for gmail too, and put them in a 
cron job and run once a day to take care of new folks.


At 04:30 PM 2/14/2017, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>On 02/14/2017 07:40 AM, David Andrews wrote:
> >
> > Well I will have to investigate further and see if that is the problem.
> > You said "some time ago," and it is recent with me, which means it could
> > be something else, or not.
>
>
>True, but you should be able to tell from mail logs or Mailman's bounce
>log. I.e., when an AOL user posts, does only the delivery to that AOL
>user bounce or does delivery to all AOL users bounce.
>
>The former was my case.
>
>
> > Have you written, or is there a script to go
> > through all lists and change attribute, and/or would it work to send
> > them post acknowledgement? With 300 lists and over 12,000 users I can't
> > really do it by hand.
>
>
>Here's a withlist script. Save it in Mailman's bin/ directory as
>aol_notmetoo.py
>
>------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------
>from Mailman import mm_cfg
>
>def aol_notmetoo(mlist):
>     if not mlist.Locked():
>         mlist.Lock()
>     for member in mlist.getMembers():
>         if member.lower().endswith('@aol.com'):
>             mlist.setMemberOption(
>                 member, mm_cfg.DontReceiveOwnPosts, 1)
>             # If you don't want to set 'ack' remove the next two lines
>             mlist.setMemberOption(
>                 member, mm_cfg.AcknowledgePosts, 1)
>     mlist.Save()
>     mlist.Unlock()
>------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------
>
>
>Then you can run this via withlist
>
>bin/withlist -a -r aol_notmetoo
>
>That will set 'not metoo' and optionally 'ack' for every @aol.com member
>on every list
>
>
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan