On 1/20/25 13:45, kbaumann@chicagoiww.org wrote:

I can use email to get a list of members:

To: mylist-request@lists.theserver.org Subject: who (password)

The password argument is Mailman 2.1 only. If provided for Mailman 3 it will result in an error

Unrecognized or invalid argument(s): (password)

Any chance that a sync_members could be accomplished in a similar fashion? Looks like it's only available from the console, but I'm asking anyway to be sure.

You are correct, there is no email sync members function. The issue for this is authentication. As far as the who command is concerned, the only authentication is whether the sender is authorized to see the result. In the case of a spoofed sender, no harm is done as the result will be sent to the sender address.

The same method could not be used for syncing members because if the sender were spoofed, the syncing would be done.

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