First, I wonder if all that is actually necessary, since you say the
original assigned address still works after student customization.
What's the point of updating the LISTSERV system every time the students
pick some new moniker for themselves (supposing that the
machine-readable class rolls are all populated prior to customizing, so
the faculty will always be subscribing the original ID)?

All you actually need, in LISTSERV, is something that will get the
messages to the student inbox - LISTSERV would not *have to* be updated
unless a customized address is subscribed and gets re-customized.  But
in between the time of re-customizing and the time your update runs,
there may be messages sent which the student will not receive.  So
perhaps it is more important to keep customized versions of the address
OUT of LISTSERV, rather than work hard on getting them into it.

But to address your question:
Place the collection of change commands inside an "ok begin/end" block
in the body of an email message, send that email from a Postmaster
address to LISTSERV, then respond to the confirmation request it generates.

The ok begin/end method is in section 15.7 of the manual here:
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/15.5/htmlhelp/site%20managers/SecurityFeaturesandFunctions.17.1.html




On 4/2/2015 4:31 PM, F J Kelley wrote:
> ​Hi,
>
> Our mail system is MS Office 365. We assign incoming students an email
> address in the form
>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> The students may customize that address to something like
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> (actually, they seem to test different versions of the address).
>
> All of this is fine. But. The Registrar's Office provides the original
> ID assigned (in an Exchange environment, both addresses are proxies for
> a real address; the students actually only "SendAs" whatever the
> customized address is -- in Exchange terms, the "PrimarySMTPAddress". If
> no customization, the originally assigned one is used), and faculty can
> typically use a machine-readable version of the class roll to add
> subscribers to their class discussion lists.
>
> I change the addresses as the students customize their addresses, but
> the Registrar's Office will continue to use the original ID. I have a
> powershell script to collect the Primary SMTP addresses for all list
> subscribers (collected one list at a time from the list report on the
> web). From that, I can build a file with all the "quiet change listname
> old-address new-address" in it. Our listsever is on a Linux box and I
> can paste the entire "change" file into pine and update all the
> addresses via CJLI. Using the web, I can see how to issue a single
> change at a time (List Management -> Command", but no way to process an
> entire file of these. Or have I missed something (very, very possible).
>
> Yes, this is really clunky, for now it is what we have ...
>
> --Joe

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