> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:55, John Wofford wrote: >> I run reasonably large mailman list server, and I've recently been >> doing some upgrades. I've been on a time crunch or I wouldn't have >> pushed this to get to the point I'm in without knowing this, but here >> is my situation: >> >> Our list server runs with qmail, and as the alias creation has always >> been a bit of a pain, we decided to go with the mailman-to-qmail.py >> contrib script and migrate our lists over to an dedicated domain. The >> problem is this, I now need to notify everyone on ~50 lists that the >> e-mail address has now changed. This is somewhat urgent, as I don't >> want people to get too many bounced e-mails before they figure it out. >> Is there a nice, clean, and preferably easy way to send out an >> announcement to the *entire* listserve? Any other suggestions? >> >> Many thanks, >> -John > > You'll have to send the message out to each list (as a valid member of > each list). > > I hope you aren't discarding the old email addresses for the list. > Instead, simply alias your old lists addresses to the new addresses - > forward the traffic on to the new list names. > > You will have to do maintenance to each existing list (since you are > changing the mailing address), as part of that maintenance add the old > and new email addresses as valid implicit addresses for the list. > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes
Thanks for the prompt response. Of course, not entirely what I wanted to hear, but good to know what I have to do at least. I didn't have any option with the old domain, so hopefully a mass mailing will do the trick. -John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
