Mailman-api documentation release v0.2.9 mailman-api provides a daemon that will listen to http requests, providing access to a rest api that can be used to interact with a locally-installed mailman (version 2) instance. mailman-api is tested with python 2.7 and depends on: paste = 1.7 bottle = 0.11.6 mailman-api is a work in progress. contributions are welcome. feel free to fork and contribute!
You can use pip to install mailman-api and requirements:
$ pip install mailman-api
We are currently working to provide linux packages (deb and rpm). Stay tunned!
To start the service manually just run the mailman-api command.
If you installed mailman-api from a distribution package you should be able to start your service by running service mailman-api start.
Usage: mailman-api [options]
Options:
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-bBIND,--bind=BIND
Bind address. Default: '127.0.0.1:8000'.
--allow-from=ALLOW_FROM
IPs to allow incoming requests. By deufalt only allow connections from '127.0.0.1'.
-lMAILMANLIB_PATH,--mailman-lib-path=MAILMANLIB_PATH
Path to mailman libs directory. Default: '/usr/lib/mailman'.
-d, --debug
Print debug information
Requests can be made to any of the URI's below, strictly using the HTTP methods indicated.
The body of all responses contains valid JSON objects. Unless otherwise noted, successful requests get as response a 200 (OK) status code for response, and true in the response body. Failed requests will get responses with some HTTP error code in the 400s, and a string describing the problem in the response body.
Supported methods:
Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Sergio Oliveira Campos
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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Sergio Oliveira
2014, Sergio Oliveira Campos