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NAME

       listadmin - process messages held by Mailman for approval

SYNOPSIS

       listadmin [-?] [-V] [-f configfile] [-t minutes] [--mail] [--nomail] [{-a|-r} file]
       [--add-member address] [--remove-member address] [-l] [listname]

DESCRIPTION

       listadmin is a textual alternative to Mailman's WWW interface for administering mailing
       lists.

OPTIONS

       -f configfile
              Fetch list of mailing lists from configfile rather than the default
              (~/.listadmin.ini).

       -t minutes
              Stop processing after minutes has passed.  Mostly useful for completely automated
              configurations of listadmin.

       --mail Addresses added as subscribers will have nomail turned off.

       --nomail
              Addresses added as subscribers will have nomail turned on.

       -a file
              Add e-mail addresses listed in file (one address per line) to the subscriber list.
              The welcome message is suppressed.

       --add-member address
              Add address to the subscriber list, works as above.

       -r file
              Remove e-mail addresses listed in file (one address per line) from the subscriber
              list.

       --remove-member address
              Remove address from the subscriber list.

       -l     Display the subscriber list.

       listname
              Only process the lists matching listname.  Specify a complete address, a substring
              or a regular expression.

       -? or --help
              Display short usage description.

       -V or --version
              Output version number.

CONFIGURATION SYNTAX

       The configuration file contains lines which can contain either a comment, a directive, or
       a mailing list address.

       A line can be continued by putting a backslash character at the end of the line.  Any
       leading whitespace on the following line is removed.

       Comments begin with the character # and extend to the end of line.  Backslash continuation
       is not applied to comments.

       The argument to the directive can be put in double quotes to protect space characters.
       Inside double quotes, \" can be used to include a literal double quote, and \\ for a
       literal backslash.

DIRECTIVES

       A directive affects all the mailing lists addresses which follow after it in the
       configuration file.  The directives are:

              username username
                     Specifies the username to use for authentication.  (Not all Mailman servers
                     require a username.)

              password password
                     Specifies the password to use for authentication.

              adminurl url
                     The URL for maintaining Mailman requests.  Some substitutions are performed:
                     (examples below refer to the hypothetical list foo-devel@example.net)

                     {list} The local part of the list name, e.g., "foo-devel".

                     {domain}
                            The domain part of the list name, e.g., "example.net".

                     {subdomain}
                            The first component of the domain part, e.g., "example".

              default action
                     Specifies the action to take when the user presses just Return.  Available
                     actions are:

                     approve
                            The message will be sent to all member of the list.

                     reject Notify sender that the message was rejected.

                     discard
                            Throw message away, don't notify sender.

                     skip   Don't decide now, leave it for later.

                     none   Reset to no default action.

              action action
                     This action will be taken for all messages where none of the other rules
                     apply (e.g., spamlevel, discard_if_from etc.), ie., whenever the user would
                     have been asked what to do.  The same actions as for default are available,
                     although reject isn't very useful.

              spamlevel number
                     This specifies the threshold for automatic discard of suspected spam
                     messages.  12 is unlikely to have false positives.  No user confirmation is
                     needed, so it is best to play it safe.  Less than 5 is not recommended.

              spamheader header-name
                     The name of the header which contains the spam score.  It is assumed that
                     the score is encoded as a sequence of characters, like "*****" for the value
                     5.  By default it will look for all headers with names containing "spam" and
                     "score" or "level", and pick the highest score if there is more than one.
                     Setting the header-name to default will restore this behaviour.

              not_spam_if_from pattern
                     If the message's From header matches the pattern, all automatic actions will
                     be cancelled and you will be asked what action to take explicitly.  The
                     pattern can use Perl regexp syntax.  If enclosed in slashes, some modifiers
                     can be added, a typical example being /pattern/i to match case-
                     insensitively.

              not_spam_if_subject pattern
                     As above, but matches against the Subject header.

              discard_if_from pattern
                     If the message's From header matches the pattern, it will be discarded
                     automatically.

              discard_if_subject pattern
                     As above, but matches against the Subject header.

              discard_if_reason pattern
                     As above, but matches against Mailman's reason for holding the message for
                     approval.

              subscription_default action
                     Specifies the action to take when the user presses just Return while
                     processing subscriptions.  Available actions are:

                     accept The new subscriber will be added.

                     reject Notify sender that s/he was not allowed to join the list.

                     skip   Don't decide now, leave it for later.

                     none   Reset to no default action.

              subscription_action action
                     This action will be taken always for all new subscribers in the relevant
                     lists, no user interaction will take place.  The same actions as for
                     subscription_default are available, although only skip is very useful.  It
                     is better to get automatic accept and reject behaviour by changing the
                     Mailman configuration.

              confirm yes|no
                     Before submitting changes, ask for confirmation.  Default is "yes".

              unprintable questionmark|unicode
                     If the subject or sender address contains characters the terminal can't
                     display, they will be replaced by either "<?>" (in questionmark mode, the
                     default) or something like "<U+86a8>" (in unicode mode).

              log filename
                     Changes submitted to the web interface are logged.  All the changes for one
                     list are sent in batches at the end of processing.  The format in the log is
                     first a line containing the list name and a time stamp in local time.  Then
                     one line for each message, in the format

                     action D:[date] F:[sender] S:[subject]

                     This batch of lines is terminated by a line saying changes sent to server.

                     The same substitutions are performed on filename as on the argument to
                     adminurl.  Tilde syntax can be used to refer to home directories.  The
                     filename none turns off logging.

              meta_member_support yes|no
                     Meta members are an experimental feature at the University of Oslo.  This
                     option is enabled by default for lists in uio.no, and is needed to avoid
                     clearing the list of meta members when manipulating the list of ordinary
                     members.  Note: Requires additional Perl module WWW::Mechanize

              cafile /path/to/CAcertificate
                     Specify which CA certificate to use for all lists following. Setting cafile
                     to NONE will use the default cafile.

              verify_peer yes|no
                     If set to no SSL certificate verification will be disabled for all lists
                     following.

INTERACTIVE USE

       The user interface to listadmin is line oriented with single letter commands.  By pressing
       Return, the default action is chosen.  The default action is printed in brackets in the
       prompt.  The available actions are:

              a      Approve sending the message to all members of the list.

              r      Reject the message and notify sender of the decision.

              d      Discard the message silently, don't notify sender.

              s      Skip the message, leave its status as pending unchanged.

              b      View Body, display the first 20 lines of the message.

              f      View Full, display the complete message, including headers.

              t      View Time, display the Date header from the message.

              number Jump forward or backward to message number.

              u      Go back to the previous message and undo the last approve, discard or reject
                     action.

              /pattern
                     Search (case-insensitively) for the next message with matching From or
                     Subject.  If pattern is left out, the previous value will be used.

              ?pattern
                     As above, but backwards.

              .      Redisplay information about current message.

              add    Add address as subscriber to the list.  If address is left out, use the
                     sender of the current message.

              nomail As add, but adds address with "nomail" enabled.

              list   List subscriber addresses matching pattern, or the full list if no pattern
                     is specified.

              rem    Remove address from the subscriber list.  Note: there is no undo for this
                     action.

              q      Quit processing this list and go on to the next.

       Changes will not take effect until the end of the list has been reached.  At that time,
       the user will be prompted whether the changes should be submitted to Mailman (see also
       "confirm" directive above).

EXAMPLES

       To process only the lists of a single domain, specify the domain as the pattern:
          listadmin example.com

       To disable the printing of characters outside US-ASCII, set the locale appropriately:
          env LC_CTYPE=C listadmin

       An example configuration file:
          # A comment, it must appear on a line by itself.
          #
          # Settings affect all lists being listed after it.

          username jdoe@example.com
          password Geheim
          default discard
          # This one works for Sourceforge:
          adminurl http://{domain}/lists/admindb/{list}

          slartibartfast@lists.sourceforge.net

          # This is how the default Mailman URLs look:
          adminurl http://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list}

          # If the password contains quotes or spaces, you may need
          # to put it in quotes.  A complex example:
          password "\"lise\\ "

          # These lists will still use the username [jdoe], but the
          # password is now ["lise\ ].

          default approve
          discard_if_reason "Message has implicit|Too many recipients"
          discard_if_from ^(postmaster|mailer(-daemon)?|listproc|no-reply)@

          foo-devel@example.net

          # No one should ever send e-mail to the next list, so throw it
          # all away, without asking any questions
          action discard
          confirm no
          foo-announce@example.net

ENVIRONMENT

       http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY
              Specifies a proxy to use for HTTP.

       https_proxy or HTTPS_PROXY
              Specifies a proxy to use for HTTPS.

       LC_CTYPE
              The character set support is deduced from this variable.

FILES

       $HOME/.listadmin.ini

       The default configuration file.

BUGS

       The HTML parser is quite fragile and depends on Mailman not to change the format of its
       generated code.

       An extra blank line is sometimes added to the subject when it contains double width
       characters (e.g. Chinese).  This is probably a bug in Text::Reform.

AUTHOR

       Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho+listadmin@ifi.uio.no>

       Project manager: Johnny A. Solbu <johnny@solbu.net>

                                            2016-12-21                               LISTADMIN(1)