Even Cpanel should let Mailman dump out the user lists for you. There is a Mailman commandline that specifically does that (list_members).
The command to dump out your configuration to text is config_list. Your admin can dump the config out, edit the fields that change (URL and default host names - the list name, if that changes) then simply create a list with the same name and upload the config file using config_list again. It's almost a "no brainer" once you read the help that comes with config_list. Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 23:16, Pastor Augie wrote: > Jon, > > thanks for your reply. I've passed along your message to my ISP - he's > pretty responsive... we'll see what he says. > > Unfortunately, we *do* use cPanel ... and this is NOT the first problem > we've had... funny you should mention that! Sometimes our messages get > stuck in queue and don't come out for days if at all. > > Anyway, I don't have command line access and am not even sure where the > files for mailman are. They don't appear to be in our user directory. If > you could tell me the name of the file to look for, I could direct the > sysadmin to look for it. > > But just double checking - there is no way to export email addresses and > names? Then it would be a simple matter to re-import them. > > Thanks for all your help! > > Augie. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] changing ISP servers > > > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:33, Pastor Augie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have several mailman lists setup. Because of technical difficulties > > with our ISP's physical server, I am being required to migrate our > > entire website, including lists, to a new server (new IP and new > > name). My ISP contact tells me that when the mailman lists are moved > > to the new server they will need to be RECREATED FROM SCRATCH!! > > > > Is that the case? What is the most desirable way to migrate to a new > > server? Is there a simple export feature or some flat (or db) file I > > can export or something like that so I don't have to recreate the list > > by hand?? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Augie. > > > > Well, if they are using a straight version of Mailman then the answer is > false. It's very easy to move lists to a new server. > > It may be that they are actually using Cpanel (or will be using Cpanel). > This app does "who-knows-what" to Mailman. Actually we know a few > things it does, thanks to the many, many complaints we receive on a > regular basis from folks stuck using Cpanel. > > Even then, the movements of the lists can be relatively painless - if > they allow you command line access to dump out your list configurations > into text files. > > Good luck - Jon Carnes > > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
