On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > When you change a member's address in this way, a confirmation request > is sent to the new address, and the address is not changed until the > user confirms. > > Even as list admin, you cannot change a member's address from the web > without user confirmation. > > The way to change a member's address without confirmation is via the > Mailman command line tool bin/clone_member.
First: immense thanks to everyone on the Mailman team -- it's been an invaluable tool for many small organizations that I support.
On the other hand, I'm one of those who does not have access to the command line utilities (Mailman installed on shared hosting via control panel). While I know it's possible to automate the web interface in a variety of ways (thanks, for example, for the mailman-subscribers.py script!) that just seems awkward to me -- and automating this particular issue (with an unsubscribe/subscribe) has side effects as noted in this thread from 2004:
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