Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 09/30/2017 03:15 PM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote: > Hello Dimitri Maziuk. On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:31:23 -0500, you wrote: > >> But the welcome messages have been sent so interrupting it and >> re-running with smaller address chunks will have some people receive >> the welcome

Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 09/30/2017 02:31 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > But the welcome messages have been sent so interrupting it and > re-running with smaller address chunks will have some people receive the > welcome message twice. I'd like to avoid that. TRhe welcome messages contain randomly generated user

Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users
Hello Dimitri Maziuk. On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:31:23 -0500, you wrote: > But the welcome messages have been sent so interrupting it and > re-running with smaller address chunks will have some people receive > the welcome message twice. I'd like to avoid that. I don't think so. My My Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2017-09-30 13:15, Mark Sapiro wrote: The process is subscribing the members one at a time. This will send a welcome as each user is subscribed, but the updated list configuration is not saved until the process is complete. Thus, if it's interrupted prior to completion, the list is not

Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 09/29/2017 11:34 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > a few days ago I made a mistake (?) of uploading a list of ~7000 > addresses into the "bulk subscribe" box. None of them made it into the > subscriber list, but at least some of the welcome e-mails went out. > > Question: what is mailman actually

Re: [Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Question: what is mailman actually doing? Is it waiting for all the > retries and bounces before it updates the subscriber list? Or has it > failed and I need to re-do the whole thing? Look in /usr/local/mailman/logs/* /var/spool/mqueue/ or whatever your local equivalent paths are Julian --

[Mailman-Users] bulk subscribe 7K users

2017-09-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, a few days ago I made a mistake (?) of uploading a list of ~7000 addresses into the "bulk subscribe" box. None of them made it into the subscriber list, but at least some of the welcome e-mails went out. Question: what is mailman actually doing? Is it waiting for all the retries and