majordomo [Was: Send to a Listing]

Will Yardley mutt-users at veggiechinese.net
Wed Apr 24 05:40:06 UTC 2019


On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 07:52:46AM +1000, mutt at raf.org wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:

> > The whole point of suggesting majordomo is that (IIRC) it keeps the
> > recipients in a plain-text file, one address per line, making it
> > trivial to replace them by dropping in a file that had them in that
> > format in place of the existing file.  You can't do that with mailman
> > because it stores them in a db file.
> 
> Fair enough. I hadn't read the entire thread.

FWIW, while I haven't worked with Mailman in a while, you can either
directly interface with the Mailman Python libs pretty trivially, or use
~mailman/bin/list_members (from memory) to dump the list of recipients
to a file.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/list_members.8.html

w



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