On 6/13/20 2:17 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:

I'm about to set up a new list, and want to try out Mailman3.

The only component available in Fedora, is the Mailman core package.

I find that strange as <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/> is Mailman 3 and the core developer who did most of the HyperKitty development works or did work for Fedora.

With the /usr/libexec/mailman3/mailman command, I was able to create a list, and add a member throug the sub commands create and members.

How can I read out the list configuration from here, and change settings? Do I then need to install/use other components, or is there other possibilities, e.g. using the shell command?

You can do anything through mailman shell, but it can be cumbersome. You can also do most things via the REST API <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/rest/docs/rest.html>, but that too is cumbersome if doing it, e.g., with curl.

If I get a message that needs moderation, can I do the decision from cli, or how do I do that?

You should be able to do it via a reply to LIST-confirm+<token>@example.com, but this currently doesn't work. See <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/169>.

To do it in mailman shell is something like:

$ bin/mailman shell -l list.example.com Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell Use commit() to commit changes. Use abort() to discard changes since the last commit. Exit with ctrl+D does an implicit commit() but exit() does not. The variable 'm' is the list.example.com mailing list

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from mailman.app.moderator import handle_message from mailman.interfaces.action import Action action = Action.discard # to discard action = Action.reject # to reject action = Action.accept # to accept immediately action = Action.defer # to continue with subsequent tests rq = IListRequests(m) rq.held_requests <generator object ListRequests.held_requests at 0x7f5431dda048> list(rq.held_requests) [] # when you have requests this is a list of (id, type) tuples # type is 1 for message, 2 for subscription and 3 for unsubscription id = 'integer request id from above' handle_message(m, id, action, comment='reason if rejecting')

This is obviously not practical, but you could make a script to accept the token that you know and an action and maybe a comment to do the actual handling.

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