On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 2:07 PM David Partain via Mailman-users < mailman-users@mailman3.org> wrote:

Hi,

One of the great things about our new installation compared with our old is the ability to manage users via

https://our.wee.domain/postorius/users

I might have been able to manage them using the command line on the old installation, but there is no 'mailman delmembers' on that box.

Since I now have this Mighty Power, I want to use it to clean up. There are many users who should no longer be on the system, so I want to run something along the lines of:

mailman delmembers --member some@email.address --fromall
--no-goodbye-msg --no-admin-notify

or, if I'm feeling brave, something like this.

mailman delmembers --file somefile --fromall
--no-goodbye-msg --no-admin-notify

My question is: If one of these users is the sole owner of a list, what will happen? Will the user be deleted and that list now owner-less? Will mailman refuse to delete that user until I add a new owner?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

1. Create a testlist
2. Assign an owner to it
3. Delete the owner via the CLI or Postorius

Give us your feedback :)

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM David Partain <david.partain@ericsson.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 15:14 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

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My question is: If one of these users is the sole owner of a list, what will happen? Will the user be deleted and that list now owner-less? Will mailman refuse to delete that user until I add a new owner?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

1. Create a testlist
2. Assign an owner to it
3. Delete the owner via the CLI or Postorius

Give us your feedback :)

I'll happily do so, and thanks for the idea. Try stuff, David!

Cheers,

Daudi Mwisho, as my mom liked to call me

Aah. Mswahili :-)

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]