I exported my list, removed misbehaving phpList from the server, and then reinstalled a shinny new phpList and imported the list. But what about unconfirmed, unsubscribed, and blacklisted subscribers? I think that data was missing, so I sent a new campaign to everyone including ( again I think) to people who were previously blacklisted (oh the shame of it) asking everyone to unsubscribe again, if they needed to.
- Did that blacklisted data get imported?
- Wouldn’t it make sense to bulk delete everyone except confirmed subscribers before exporting (If only I knew how)?
@bbookghost Your exported data should have included columns for confirmed and blacklisted, but I think that those are ignored when importing.
You can extract the unconfirmed and the blacklisted (open the exported file in a spreadsheet and either sort or filter to get those you want), then use the suppression list page, menu Subscribers > Suppression list, to update those subscribers to either unconfirmed or blacklisted. On that page ‘make suppression permanent’ means make blacklisted.
Or use the Subscribers plugin, see https://resources.phplist.com/plugins/start which provides similar functionality.
Thanks for the helpful instructions duncanc.
I’m saving them for if this event should occur again.