[Mailman-Users] Importing emails to mailman's database

[chris souza]

Mike,

I would send 1 newsletter mail to 15,000 emails.

Thanks for the response.

Chris

--- Mike Avery <mavery at mail.otherwhen.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2003 at 9:01, chris souza wrote:
> 
> > I have a list of 15,000 emails. I would like to
> import
> > them to mailman. I would then use mailman to email
> all
> > of them my newsletter. Is this possible?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're
> trying to do... so I'll try to 
> answer and you can respond if I missed the target.
> 
> If your 15,000 emails are in mbox format, they can
> be imported into the 
> archives using the ~/bin/arch command.  If they
> aren't in the mbox 
> format, that's a simple matter of programming
> (unless your 15,000 
> emails are in 1,000 wierd formats, which often
> happens).
> 
> Importing the emails doesn't send them anywhere. 
> They wind up in 
> the archives.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by your newsletter.  If
> you mean an 
> emailed newsletter, and if you want to send the
> 15,000 messages to 
> your mailing list subscribers, you risk subscriber
> anger.  I wouldn't want 
> to wake up one morning and discover someone had sent
> me 15,000 
> emails.  It would be a drain on my 56k dialup line. 
> And more than I'd 
> care to try to digest all at once, no matter how
> involved I was with the 
> topic of the newsletter or mailing list.  Even
> skimming 15,000 email 
> subject lines takes a while.
> 
> I have a bunch of archives left over from about a
> dozen mailing lists 
> from other list managers and am in the process of
> converting them to 
> mbox format so I can import them.  I wouldn't dream
> of sending them 
> to my subscribers.  Though I will tell them that
> they are on-line when 
> that finally happens.
> 
> Mike
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