Name should be optional on import

[russss]

When importing contacts, the name field is required. This should be optional, as it is if you subscribe to a list though the signup form.

[MaximilianKohler]

This has been discussed before and marked "won't change".

[knadh]

Name can't be blank for reasons discussed in the past, #967, #594.

However, since this keeps coming up, perhaps there's a middlepath. If there's no name given, listmonk automatically extract the name part out of the e-mail and use it. Eg: [email protected] -> username.

Any thoughts on this?

[russss]

Yeah, if you don't specify a name in the signup form or the API then the local part of the email address gets used, and I think it's quite likely that people will need to import a list of emails without names.

In fact the only reason the import fails here is because of this additional if len(s.Name) == 0 check:

listmonk/internal/subimporter/importer.go

Line 640 in 8f12c03

if len(s.Name) == 0 || len(s.Name) > stdInputMaxLen {

I just edited this condition out and it imported my name-less CSV fine by setting the name to the local part of the email address.