Re: Devin's effort

If I'm lucky I get a spreadsheet from whichever university I'm teaching at 
- then just copy from the email address column. (Sometimes I have to hand 
enter from a paper sign up sheet though...)
Steve

--On April 20, 2015 11:35:05 AM -0400 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On 4/20/2015 10:56 AM, Dr. Steven P. Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, glad to know about the nesting.
>>
>> The other is a big deal for me because I teach for a living. I can have
>> 30-50 students in each of 4-5 classes for a semester and need a way to
>> reach each class during the term. Then I never need it again.
>
> I understand... different people have different use cases...
>
> What I would do in such a case in TB is create a separate Address Book
> for each class, create the List, then delete them when the semester is
> over.
>
> I'm curious - you have to get the email address into the list somehow, I
> mean, they aren't going to just magically populate themselves, so, how
> are you doing it now? If you have or can get them into a CSV (or
> preferably LDIF), you can easily import them into a separate address
> book, then quickly make a list.
>
> But, I also understand if that isn't what you want to do.
>
> No idea how long before the Address Book rewrite will take, but they
> aren't planning on adding many new features (we will *finally* be
> getting full search capability across all Address Books in 38 though!)
> until the rewrite occurs...
>
>> By the way, management of multiple, independent IMAP accounts and
>> identities is also crucial for me (since someone asked about Mulberry
>> features we depend on). I only have 6 or so, but it would be a pain not
>> to  have that.
>
> Like I said earlier, TB has excellent Identity management, that is
> expanded even more with an Addon or two...



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