That stripping/reformatting can be done without too much difficulty in a
spreadsheet program for many thousands of addresses. You do need to know how to
use certain text manipulating formulae though.
Jim Fisher
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On 14 Aug 2018 at 8:26, Alan Robbins via Groups.Io wrote:
Adam & Shal,
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
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