String full names with subscribers addresses

String full names with subscribers addresses

[Raymond den Ouden]

Maybe this is a newbie question but I couldn't find anything on this
subject.

Since I use mlmmj for maintaining lists for a sports club only e-mail
addresses isn't very useful for me.

People can't subscribe since they are closed lists and people don't even
know how to unsubscribe sinse I removed all the help messages, due to
the fact they don't need to see it. And besides that I can't rely on
them to unsubscribe. For example if someone leaves the board they
shoulnd't recieve mails directed to the board.

Now I have to maintain 2 lists, 1 with the names and addresses and the
list itself.

Is there a way to store the names with the addresses within the list?
If not are there plans to  do so or is it something that doesn't fit in
the design or ideas of the developers?

Re: String full names with subscribers addresses

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

* Raymond den Ouden <raymond@den-ouden.info> [Dec 07. 2006 12:39]:
> Maybe this is a newbie question but I couldn't find anything on this
> subject.
> 
> Since I use mlmmj for maintaining lists for a sports club only e-mail
> addresses isn't very useful for me.
> 
> People can't subscribe since they are closed lists and people don't even
> know how to unsubscribe sinse I removed all the help messages, due to
> the fact they don't need to see it. And besides that I can't rely on
> them to unsubscribe. For example if someone leaves the board they
> shoulnd't recieve mails directed to the board.
> 
> Now I have to maintain 2 lists, 1 with the names and addresses and the
> list itself.
> 
> Is there a way to store the names with the addresses within the list?
> If not are there plans to  do so or is it something that doesn't fit in
> the design or ideas of the developers?

This is not possible right now, you would need to store that outside
mlmmj.

What you could do however, is just maintain one list, and with a script
dump the addresses into subscribers.d/ directory.

It doesn't matter what files are called, and how many of them there are
in subscribers.d/. Any file with emailaddresses will be considered a
subscribers file. And since you don't let people subscribe manually, you
control it.

 $ extract-addresses.pl my-names.txt > LISTDIR/subscribers.d/mysubs

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