Adam Minski writes:
I think the mailman shell way isn't persistent,
I don't understand what you mean by "persistent" here. I take that to mean that once you change the list attributes, they stay changed until you change them again. But that doesn't seem to make sense.
and I would prefer some kind of config file. I have not found any helpful yet.
There isn't a config file yet, except the Python modules in src/mailman/styles. You have to hack the Python or write SQL.
We're currently working on this but we don't have working code yet, let alone anything we can release. The code we're starting from is designed to allow you to start from a base style, tweak the configuration, and either save the new configuration as a complete style, or save the difference as a mix-in style. There will also be some kind of export/import facility, which you could treat as a config file, I guess.
Steve