[Mailman-Users] adding subscribers

Marc MERLIN marc_news at vasoftware.com
Sat Feb 16 06:53:14 CET 2002


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 05:40:21PM -0800, Andrew Watson wrote:
> I recently migrated a list to mailman, and after setup and testing, I 
> tried to move the list of subscribers to the new list. I did this by 
> pasting about 20 addresses, one per line, into the text box on the 
> Membership Management page of the configuration site. That seemed to 
> work. Emboldened, I pasted in another 700. After churning for a 
> while, I got some message from the browser about not finding 
> something. When I look at the membership page now, it says there are 
> 720 subscribers, and shows them all.

So they should be subscribed.
Note that for so many people, you want to use the cli
~mailman/bin/add_members

> But... I received email confirmations only for the first 20. Are the 
> others really subscribed? Is there a file I can examine to check? And 

Yes.
You can do ~mailman/list_members listname to double check if you wish

Marc
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