majordomo [Was: Send to a Listing]

felixs besteck455 at gmail.com
Thu May 2 10:33:15 UTC 2019


On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:34:24PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 09:53:58AM +1000, mutt at raf.org wrote:
> > if you want majordomo, i can send a copy but it's available at:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/majordomo/Welcome.html
> > 
> > note that it's at least 18 years old and unsupported (but still works).
> > it might be a better idea to use mailman.
> 
> 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.  So in that case you'd be better
> off using a script to generate a mutt aliases file, or some other
> thing.

Just to inform you that I suspended the work on the bash script and
decided to lock myself in with Python, so I will not be available for
other things for some time now. Thanks, Derek, Wim, Cameron for your input.
On the other hand, maybe this (1) might be useful for the op or anyone
interested in using mutt in a python wrapper script.

(1) https://github.com/stevekm/mutt-py

Cheers,

felixs


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