[mlmmj] bulk-adding emails to a mlmmj email list

[mlmmj] bulk-adding emails to a mlmmj email list

[webmaster]

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Now that I have mjmml working, I'm wondering if there's a way to 
bulk-add a list of emails to a mailing list?

Here's my scenario, and why I'm asking:
We run 10-15 relatively small lists, most about a dozen addresses, with 
our largest only about 125 addresses.  These are all "closed" 
subonlypost lists.  We occasionally add new lists, when projects come 
up, and sometimes retire (delete) lists once a project is done.

The idea of having to manually use mlmmj-make-ml to enter each address 
seems like lot of work.  It would be great if one could simply take an 
ASCII text file, with one address per line, and somehow stuff them all 
into the mailing list at once, rather than typing out a mlmmj-sub 
command 125 times.

In our situation we're not concerned about subscribers being able to 
self-subscribe, or self-unsubscribe, and we're don't normally use or 
need list archives. I'm not sure if these concerns make the idea of 
bulk-addition more difficult, but if there's any way to do this, it 
would make my life a lot easier.

[ I noticed after adding several addresses to a list, that they seem to 
appear in the /var/spool/mlmmj/listname/subscribers.d/ directory, each 
address ending up in a single-character-name file, based on the 1st 
letter in the address - ie. paul@me.com, peter@msn.com, etc. all ended 
up in a file called "p". Is it possible to use scripts to simply stuff 
addresses into these files, based on the 1st character in the address?  
What would be the implication of doing this independently of the 
existing mlmmj-sub script? ]

<https://vlsc.org/manager/ispmgr?func=file&plid=var/spool/mlmmj/lightnings&elid=subscribers.d> 
With the old Majordomo, it was relatively easy for me to setup some PHP 
admin scripts that let me view/add/edit the list of addresses in an 
email list, and I'm hoping to do the same with mlmmj.

Philip

P.S. is there a procedure for deleting a mailing list? can one simply 
delete the .../mlmmj/listdir and all it's contents?


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Re: [mlmmj] bulk-adding emails to a mlmmj email list

[Mads Martin Jørgensen]

On 17 Oct 2014 at 23:20:42, webmaster@vlsc.org (webmaster@vlsc.org(mailto:webmaster@vlsc.org)) wrote:

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> [ I noticed after adding several addresses to a list, that they seem to appear in the /var/spool/mlmmj/listname/subscribers.d/ directory, each address ending up in a single-character-name file, based on the 1st letter in the address - ie. paul@me.com(mailto:paul@me.com), peter@msn.com(mailto:peter@msn.com), etc. all ended up in a file called "p". Is it possible to use scripts to simply stuff addresses into these files, based on the 1st character in the address? What would be the implication of doing this independently of the existing mlmmj-sub script? ]

You can just put it in files in the subscribers.d/ directory, yes. You shouldn’t need the same sorting as mlmmj does. Any file will be read as a subscriber file. If you do want mlmmj-sub to do it, just put all addresses in a file and run through it with a simple bash script 1-liner:

$ for ADDR in `cat file-with-addr.txt`; do /path/to/mlmmj-sub -L dir -l $ADDR

> With the old Majordomo, it was relatively easy for me to setup some PHP admin scripts that let me view/add/edit the list of addresses in an email list, and I'm hoping to do the same with mlmmj.

It’s just as easy here.

> P.S. is there a procedure for deleting a mailing list? can one simply delete the .../mlmmj/listdir and all it's contents?

Correct.

--  
Mads Martin Joergensen, mmj@mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
-- A. P. J.

Re: [mlmmj] bulk-adding emails to a mlmmj email list

[Ben Schmidt]

> You can just put it in files in the subscribers.d/ directory, yes. You
> shouldn’t need the same sorting as mlmmj does. Any file will be read
> as a subscriber file. If you do want mlmmj-sub to do it, just put all
> addresses in a file and run through it with a simple bash script
> 1-liner:
>
> $ for ADDR in `cat file-with-addr.txt`; do /path/to/mlmmj-sub -L dir -l $ADDR

Slight tweak:

mlmmj-sub -L dir -f -q -s -a $ADDR

I would recommend making a script that calls mlmmj-sub rather than
manipulating the files manually. It probably won't break delivery, but
it probably would break unsubscription/bounce-processing/etc. if they're
not in the right file.

Also check out the contrib directory in the distribution for existing
web interfaces; I believe one or two of them allow you to bulk-subscribe
users. Not sure this is quite what you want, but it's another option.

Ben.

Re: [mlmmj] bulk-adding emails to a mlmmj email list

[Ben Schmidt]

> The idea of having to manually use mlmmj-make-ml to enter each address seems like
> lot of work.

You don't need to go through the hassle of the text interface of
mlmmj-make-ml to make a list. The way I do it myself is I create a
number of template lists with the kinds of settings I want, and a script
that copies the list directory of whichever template I want, and
overwrites the listname and owner tunables (and maybe a couple of other
things; can't remember now).

Ben.