On Thu, Sep 5, 2019, at 3:22 AM, roger@reasonal.com wrote:

Hi all -- think this is a bug. I had added some users as a mass subscribe. Some were Name Surname <name@foo.bar> format, some were just email addresses. I wanted to update the member list with complete name & email addresses. I unsubscribed the partials, and re-added them as full versions. However the updated member list keeps showing the partial address only.

This bug also works the other way. I added "Bob Smith <bob@bob.com>", checked it was there in list. Unsubscribed the address, and then re-added as "bob@bob.com" -- now in the members list it appears as the full "Bob Smith <bob@bob.com>.

This behavior happens because Mailman will remember all the "users" once it has seen it. It usually doesn't update the user's name (add or remove) it once it knows about it. Addition might be something we *could* do, but I don't think it makes sense to remove the user's name.

Note that the user you add and subscribe has the ultimate control over their name. "Subscription" or "Unsubscription" process merely links or unlinks them with the MailngList. The link is what is called a "Member".

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-- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)