Alan Robbins
Adam & Shal,
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Having recently moved 3 mailman groups to Groups IO via the direct add route, let me just offer the following as a helpful hint. When one exports an address list in mailman if someone has a name associate with it gets appended to the end of the address enclosed in parenthesis. For instance my address with name looked like this: Alan1057@... (Alan Robbins) Now, Groups IO has a much more stringent protocol in how it accepts email addresses in the direct add feature. Please read the syntax prior to submitting. Mass subscribe option in mailman would accept the above example of my address, Groups IO will not. So, if you are only going to subscribe email addresses extracted from mailman, you will need to manually edit that file so only the email address is on the line or if you want to include the name it needs to be as Mark has indicated on that direct add page. The first list I submitted from mailman contained about 360 names and only 181 get added. The 181 was the addresses that folks had not associated a name in mailman with their address. Maybe there is some type email address stripper program that will only extract from your mailman the email addresses. If your group is small, manually editing is no big deal, but if it is large, it can be quite a task. Anyway just thought I'd pass on my experience Best, Al -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shal Farley Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 3:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] migrating from mailman? adam, > Wondering if anyone has migrated a list from mailman and if so the > best way to do it. From what I've read it can or has been done, and contacting support is the best way. Though you may end up in a queue with all of the Y!Group transfers. > I can get members addresses into a text file if that makes things > easier. That would be essential as I understand it. As would getting the message archive into an mbox format file, if you want to import the history of your group. If you're not looking to import the list's message archive you can DIY the transfer by using Direct Add, pasting in the list of addresses. Upgrade to the "group transfer plan", which is one month of premium (non-renewing) for $10. Or you can use the Invite feature for free. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |