[Mailman-Users] Bulk update of list member names?

[Barry Finkel]

Beau (bjames at cisco.com) wrote:

>If one has an existing mailing list with just email addresses,
>is there any procedure available to bulk-update the list membership
>with the subscribers' names (short of unsubscribing and re-subscribing
>the list members)?
>
>The "set" email command does not appear to have an option to
>change the name field.
>
>I'm looking for a procedure that does not require shell access on
>the list sever, if possible.

Will this work?

     1) Create a file that contains all of the subscribers with names:

            user at example.com    (John Z. User)

     2) Run sync_members on the Mailman machine.

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