Lyris

Importing Email Addresses

If you are moving your mailing list from another list server program to Lyris, you will probably want to import into Lyris the email addresses of your list members. Lyris comes with a program to accomplish this.

To run this program, go to your web server's CGI directory (where the other Lyris Perl programs were installed) and enter the command:
perl imp-user.pl

You will need to supply the mailing list name and the filename of the file. The program will display progress information as it imports.

The import file is assumed to be either:
1) a list of email addresses, with a carriage return after each one.
2) a list of email address, immediately followed on the same line by the person's name, with each entry separated by a carriage return.

An example of the first format:
bob@somewhere.com
jane@elsewhere.org
roger@anotherplace.edu

An example of the second format:
bob@somewhere.com Robert R. Smith
jane@elsewhere.org Jane Goodname
roger@anotherplace.edu T. Roger Bates

The import program will automatically trim off any blank space around the name, so if the name and email address are separated by a number of spaces, this will not cause a problem.

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