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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 5/9/19 9:58 AM, MENDIBOURE Catherine wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Miles, the solution you propose is only for listmasters.
> 
> I think Sabine’s question is for   list owners who *are not listmaster* ;
> 
>  
> 
> Some of our list owners which manage a lot of lists have the same need : to 
> be able to know/unnsuscribe a particular email.
> 

Hello Cathy,

so essentially a search through all the lists they have (owner) permissions 
for?

Regards
        Racke

>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Cathy
> 
>  
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> *De :*address@concealed 
> <address@concealed> *De la part de* Miles Fidelman
> *Envoyé :* lundi 6 mai 2019 17:34
> *À :* address@concealed
> *Objet :* Re: [sympa-users] Is there a possibility for list owners to find 
> out to which of his lists an email address
> belongs to?
> 
>  
> 
> Go to the Sympa Admin tab, users sub-tab - you can search on an email 
> address.
> 
> One thing to note:  the search is exact.  Unlike the user search function 
> for an individual list, where you can enter a
> partial email address, the site-wide search seems to be finicky - full 
> address, proper case.
> 
> Miles Fidelman
> 
> On 5/6/19 10:27 AM, Lorenz, Sabine (SCC) wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>      
> 
>     I have a request from a listowner who has about 60 mailing lists and 
> would like to know in which of his lists a
>     particular email address is listed.
> 
>     He says that list subscribers change regularly and it's a lot of effort 
> to have to search all lists individually to
>     find out which lists have an email address on them.
> 
>      
> 
>     As a list master I can search for an e-mail address, but for list 
> owners I don't know any comparable way to search
>     through their own lists.
> 
>     Is there such a possibility or is something planned for the future?
> 
>      
> 
>     I've told the list owner that the user can see for themselves in which 
> lists their e-mail address is entered, but
>     they don't want their list participants (often professors) to have to 
> go through the registration process
>     individually to unsubscribe from lists or change their e-mail address. 
> Instead, list owners want to relieve users of
>     this task.
> 
>      
> 
>     Of course I can write a script to export the email-adresses of all 
> subscribers of a certain list owner but this is
>     only a manual solution and the list owner always have to ask us to run 
> that script. Alternatively the list owner
>     must maintain the list of list subscribers twice in order to serach 
> after an email-adress.
> 
>     Does anyone have an idea if we can help this list owner?
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     Sabine Lorenz
> 
>      
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