[Mailman-Users] Wish list

[Caleb Epstein]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:06:42PM -0600, Stryzek, Edward wrote:

> To add to the wish list A way to extract and import subscribers from
> the list. either a tool to do this or to store users in a .csv
> format, not in the .db file We have registration databases that have
> lots of email address we would like to add, maybe at a command line
> tool would work for bulk add of users.  Hope to see this in the next
> cut of the code.  Edward L. Stryzek Senior Computer Systems Engineer
> Archdiocese of Chicago

	Um, this is QUITE easy to do with the add_members program:

Usage:
    add_members [-n <file>] [-d <file>] [-c <y|n>] [-w <y|n>] [-h] listname

Where:

    --non-digest-members-file <file>
    -n <file>
        A file containing addresses of the members to be added, one
        address per line.  This list of people become non-digest
        members.  If <file> is `-', read addresses from stdin.

    --digest-members-file <file>
    -d <file>
        Similar to above, but these people become digest members.

    --changes-msg=<y|n>
    -c <y|n> 
        set whether or not to send the list members the `there's going to be
        big changes to your list' message. defaults to no.

    --welcome-msg=<y|n>
    -w <y|n>
        set whether or not to send the list members a welcome message,
        overriding whatever the list's `send_welcome_msg' setting is.

    --help
    -h
        Print this help message and exit.

    listname
        The name of the Mailman list you are adding members to.  It must
        already exist.

You must supply at least one of -n and -d options.  At most one of the
files can be `-'.


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