On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:44:56 +0200, Platonides wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Dan Nessett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Right now the way we handle this problem is to reset the password for >>> the user causing the bounces, login to the account and deselect all >>> email notification options in preferences. However, it would be better >>> if we could just reset the email preferences on all inactive accounts. >>> Is there anyway of doing this other than resetting the password on >>> each account (of which there are many)? We run 1.16.2 on this small >>> wiki. >> >> You should be able to do this with maintenance/userOptions.php on the >> command line: >> >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:UserOptions.php >> >> something like this to see who's got things enabled: >> php userOptions.php enotifwatchlistpages --usage >> >> and to disable active ones: >> php userOptions.php enotifwatchlistpages --old 1 --new 0 >> >> -- brion > > Note that this will disable email notification *for everybody*. > userOptions.php should atleast contain a --user switch :s
Thanks. I didn't know about userOptions.php. Since the number of admins at any one time is small, I can turn off email notifications for everyone and then tell all of the current admins to turn it back on again. This gets around the problem of no --user switch. -- -- Dan Nessett _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
