Re: unable to import mailing list

Ok,

I found the answer to my own question.  If anyone is interested, here's 
what I went through This will work with any mailing list:

First, I exported my list from LetterRip and used the import letterrip 
utility.  Unfortunately, this only did a partial import, using only the 
records that had a name associated with the email address. (Eric 
offered a way to change the letterrip import script to work as well, 
but I had already converted the lists in excel)

So next, following Bears advice, I imported the letterrip list into 
excel and deleted the name column and re-saved.
Then, and this is the step that made it all work, I opened the file in 
BBEdit and resaved it as a unix file (mac saves line ends as \r and 
this didn't work.  I believe unix is \r\n - you could have done All 
this in BBedit, but I had already put the lists through excel)

then, using the following command, I imported the list with no problem.
 ./subscribe -f -q -i /Users/mail/test test

worked beautifully.  Imported a list of 3600 in a few minutes.

Thanks for all!

Jim


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:15:16 -0800, Jim Sheffer wrote:
> I guess what I need to knoow is what fromat should the list be in?
> I currently have each email address on a seperate line followed by a 
> return (/r)
> "InvalidAddress" errors...
> THanks
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:35:39 -0800, Jim Sheffer wrote:
>>  Thanks Eric-
>>  
>>  That did the trick- almost.
>>  I was able to add one address typed directly into the command line.
>>  
>>  But when i told it to get a list, It looked like it read through the 
>>  list, btu about 1 second later returned this error:
>>  
>>   root# ./subscribe -f -q -i /Users/integra/test.txt mycoachonline 
>>  immediate
>>  
>>  go-irish@xxxxxxxxxxx subscription failed to list test: InvalidAddress
>>  
>>  this particular address is the LAST address in the list(about 3600 
>>  names)
>>  
>>  Any ideas?
>>  
>>  Thanks!
>>  Jim
>>   
>>  
>>  On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:18:37 -0800, Eric Yang wrote:
>>>   The commands are not in the default path.  Therefore, you need to
>>>   add ./ to the command that you try to run.  For example:
>>>   
>>>   cd /usr/local/post.office/cmdutils
>>>   ./listsubscribers test
>>>   
>>>   Hope this helps.
>>>   
>>>   regards,
>>>   Eric
>>>   
>>>   On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Jim Sheffer wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   I found the command line utilities in the manual, and took a look at
>>>>   them.  Here's what I got, from a list I have working called "test"
>>>>   
>>>>   I ran these from the following directory:post.office/cmdutils
>>>>   
>>>>   root# listsubscribers test
>>>>   Got this returned: listsubscribers: Command not found.
>>>>   
>>>>   I also tried this:
>>>>   root# subscribe [-f] [-q] test webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [immediate]
>>>>   Got this returned:subscribe: No match.
>>>>   Thanks
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