Negative Space: Mailman
- Add a JavaScript toggle to membership management
- Another useful task—especially now that everyone is visible at once—is to be able to quickly check the checkboxes for either “unsub” or “mod”. The easiest way to do this is to add a JavaScript toggle to the HTML.
- List all Mailman members
- It’s nice that Mailman divides members up when the membership list gets large, but sometimes it’s useful to be able to see all members at the same time.
- List suspended members
- Sometimes it’s nice to be able to see all of the suspended members of a mailing list. This mod will do that.
- Modifying Mailman
- It’s not that difficult to add new features to Mailman, as long as you know where to look and remember that you’ll have to redo your changes after every upgrade.
- No distutils? Install Xcode
- If Distutils is not available on Mac OS X Leopard, install the Xcode developer tools. Also, the upgrade process I followed for upgrading from Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.12.
- View Mailman config files
- You can use Python and pickle to look directly at Mailman’s config.pck pickles.
