mass subscribe using script or cut/paste?
I have 3,000 emails I need to get into a new Mailman mailing list.
Do you think I can cut and paste into the admin membership-
management interface? I have no clue what it can handle.
I searched the archives but did not find anything similar to my question.
The box I am using is remote and I only have ssh access to it along with the web management page of course. I suppose I could use wget, ftp, or maybe scp to get the file to the remote box to use the add_members script. At this time I am not too comfortable and confident doing something like that file transfer.
Has anyone pasted that many into the admin membership-management page? How did it work?
Thanks, Andy
- Andy Firman (debian@firman.us) wrote:
I have 3,000 emails I need to get into a new Mailman mailing list.
Do you think I can cut and paste into the admin membership- management interface? I have no clue what it can handle. I searched the archives but did not find anything similar to my question.
My guess is it'll take a while to process that large amount of addresses.
The box I am using is remote and I only have ssh access to it along with the web management page of course. I suppose I could use wget, ftp, or maybe scp to get the file to the remote box to use the add_members script. At this time I am not too comfortable and confident doing something like that file transfer.
This would be the easiest way to accomplish your goal. You could even email that file as an attachment then handle the file on that box. If you need help with the other transfer commands (scp/ftp/wget) I can give pointers there if necessary.
Then adding the users would be as easy as
# add_members --regular-members-file=textfile listtoaddto
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At 11:08 PM 2/10/2003, Andy Firman wrote:
I have 3,000 emails I need to get into a new Mailman mailing list. Do you think I can cut and paste into the admin membership- management interface? I have no clue what it can handle. I searched the archives but did not find anything similar to my question.
The box I am using is remote and I only have ssh access to it along with the web management page of course. I suppose I could use wget, ftp, or maybe scp to get the file to the remote box to use the add_members script. At this time I am not too comfortable and confident doing something like that file transfer.
Has anyone pasted that many into the admin membership-management page? How did it work?
I've not done that many, but Mailman 2.1.1 a "file upload" option that I used to incorporate a fairly large list of names. It didn't seem to have any problem with the list. For your own sanity, you may want to break the list down into several smaller files, and import them one at a time so you can more easily review the "Error subscribing" list of addresses. I had the text file set up with address on a separate line in the format of:
First Last <username@domain.name>
Larry
Thanks, Andy
I've not done that many, but Mailman 2.1.1 a "file upload" option that I used to incorporate a fairly large list of names. It didn't seem to have any problem with the list. For your own sanity, you may want to break the list down into several smaller files, and import them one at a time so you can more easily review the "Error subscribing" list of addresses. I had the text file set up with address on a separate line in the format of:
First Last <username@domain.name>
Thanks for the comments everyone!
I just added the subs through the web interface in 6 groups of 500 each. The software didn't even flinch. Very nice.
Thanks to the developers of this Mailman software. It is awesome!!!
Andy
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