> I've been running Mailman as a test with a few lists and it works great.

1. > I've been running Mailman as a test with a few lists and it works great.

2. > I have a few lists that require automatic population from mail dumps.

3. > Right now the list manager is PMDF that works from text-file lists so I

4. > have a simple perl script that parses the dump and populates the lists.

5. >

6. > Im assuming I'll be able to do the same thing in python and mailMan? The

7. > dump only populates existing lists, it won't need to create anything.

8. You're going to need to use $prefix/bin/add_members to do this. Just

9. run the program without any commandline options to see what you need

10. to do. Most common incarnation is something like

11. $prefix/bin/add_members -n userlist listname

12. where userlist is a textfile containing a list of addresses to add.

13. Notice that there is also a 'remove_members' script.

14. Chris