Ubuntu Manpage: config_list - Configure a Mailman mailing list from a text file description

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NAME

       config_list - Configure a Mailman mailing list from a text file description

SYNOPSIS

       config_list [options] listname

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  a very powerful script which lets you view and modify a list's configuration variables from the
       command line.  E.g.  you can dump out all the list options into a  plain  text  file  (actually  a  valid
       Python  file!), complete with comments explaining each variable.  Or you can apply the configuration from
       such a file to a particular list.

OPTIONS

-i filename, --inputfile=filename
Configure the list by assigning each module-global variable in the file to an attribute on the
list object, then saving the list. The named file is loaded with execfile() and must be legal
Python code. Any variable that isn't already an attribute of the list object is ignored (a
warning message is printed). See also the -c option.

A special variable named `mlist' is put into the globals during the execfile, which is bound to
the actual MailList object. This lets you do all manner of bizarre thing to the list object, but
BEWARE! Using this can severely (and possibly irreparably) damage your mailing list!

-o filename, --outputfile=filename
Instead of configuring the list, print out a list's configuration variables in a format suitable
for input using this script. In this way, you can easily capture the configuration settings for a
particular list and imprint those settings on another list. filename is the file to output the
settings to. If filename is `-', standard out is used.

-c, --checkonly
The modified list is not actually changed. Only useful with -i.

-v, --verbose
Print the name of each attribute as it is being changed. Only useful with -i.

-h, --help
Print a small help text and exit

NOTES

       The options -o and -i are mutually exclusive.

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