[Mailman-Users] Bulk update of list member names?

The following script based on
<http://starship.python.net/crew/jwt/mailman/unhide.py> will read a
file (subscribers.txt) of list members, one per line, in the form

Real Name <rn at example.com>
"R. Name" <rn at example.net>
etc.

parse it into name and address and update the real name for address to
name. It requires python on your work station and the obvious changes
for listname, options_url and password.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import email
import urllib

listname = 'mylist'
options_url = 'http://www.example.com/mailman/options/'
password = 'listpassword'

subscribers = open('subscribers.txt', 'rt')



for subscriber in subscribers:
name, addr = email.Utils.parseaddr(subscriber)
if name and addr:
params = urllib.urlencode({'password':password,
'fullname':name,
'change-of-address':1})
u = urllib.urlopen('%s%s/%s' %
(options_url, listname, urllib.quote(addr)),
params)
u.close()
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You could also do the same thing with, for example, a shell script and
wget. This URL will change the real name for user at example.com to Real
Name:

http://www.example.com/mailman/options/mylist/user%40example.com?password=listpassword&fullname=Real%20Name&change-of-address=1

Will this work?

1) Create a file that contains all of the subscribers with names:

user at example.com (John Z. User)

2) Run sync_members on the Mailman machine.

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Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Information Systems Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel at anl.gov
Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

No.

sync_members makes no changes to an existing list member whose address
is in the input.