[Mailman-Users] Mass Import

Todd Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Wed Mar 26 20:07:24 CET 2003


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dmann wrote:
> I must be missing something and I hope that this is the right place to
> ask this question.  I would like to mass import a group of users into
> Mailman (version 2.11).  I have a comma delimited file that contains 2
> fields, email address field and name field.  When I use the web
> interface to do the mass import the file is successfully uploaded.  The
> problem is that it only takes the email address field, not the name
> field.  Am I doing something wrong??

I think mailman expects addresses in the file to be in the format:

    Full Name <email at address.tld> or
    email at address.tld (Full Name)

and one address per line, like the mass subscribe text box.  But I'm not an
expert so I could be mistaken.

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