----- Original Message ----- From: "tom dyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:56 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] exporting / importing users
> Hi there > > I'm wondering if it's possible to import or export subscribers of a > particular list (without using the web interface). I've got three specific > questions: > > 1. How would I go about importing a comma separated list of 12,000 email > addresses into an existing mailman list? bin/add_members can be used to add a list of email addresses to a list. This utility wants to see one exactly one email address per line, so you'll probably need to use some simple scripting or shell commands to extract the appropriate data from your CSV file. > 2. How could I export email addresses of users from an existing mailman list > into some standard format (e.g. CSV, XML)? bin/list_members will output a list all of the subscribers to a list, one address per line. You can run this output through a script to add commas, XML tags, etc. as needed. > 3. How does mailman store this stuff anyway? In lists/<listname>/config.db, which is not directly readable. I'm not involved with Mailman's development effort, but I would recommend using the utilities mentioned above, to maintain compatibility with future releases. If you wrote code to use the database file, it might not work right with the next release, or your code could accidentally kill your list by damaging the database. Hope this helps, Dave Melton ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
