[MM3-users] Re: Howto discard all pending unsubscription requests in a list?

May 20, 2026


      On Tuesday, 19 May 2026 20:15:47 CEST Mark Sapiro wrote:
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On 5/19/26 2:54 AM, Andreas Vetter wrote:
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Is there a script to discard all tose requests and get the members back on
the list?
A mailman shell interaction like this should do it.
$ mailman shell
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.
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pendings = getUtility(IPendings)
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for token, data in pendings.find(pend_type='unsubscription'):
...     if data and data['list_id'] == 'the_list.example.com':
...         pendings.confirm(token, expunge=True)
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commit()
In the above, replace the_list.example.com with the actual list_id (the
list posting address with '@' replaced with '.')
If there are no other lists with pending unsubscriptions, you can omit
the and data['list_id'] == 'the_list.example.com' check.
This works like a charm.
Thanks a lot,
Andreas