Mailman is a well-made product; it's slick, simple, reliable, everything you'd want from a mailing list but one: a clearness of documentation. I've installed it three times, and I swear I don't know how I did it. Sendmail, on the other hand, when you've installed it, you *know* how you did it, ya know?
That's what's making things hard for us, over here. The OS is Fedora Core 4 (Ubuntu's RAID-setup isn't easy, yet) and we're running the most recent RPM available, mailman-2.1.5-35.fc4. A server was running this for several years- long enough to start to worry about the reliability of the disk drives, and long enough for subsequent admins to make some mistakes that turned a bit messy. So we take the old drive, set it for IDE secondary-master, put in a new drive, and mounted the old drive, Read-only, as /archive until we're completely transitioned. And ya know- I coulda *sworn* the actual list of subscribers was in a text file, but it isn't. Key questions: 1. What, explicitly, do I copy from the archive to get the lists back, and what steps do I take to make them work? Simply copying the files that seem right, don't work at all. I suspect the binary to check the configuration will be involved, but the docs are driving me up a tree. 2. Am I doing this right? Usually when you spend a couple of days Googling for a project and turn up nothing, it means I'm doing something wrong... -- Don't be fooled by lovesongs and lonely hearts...you're living in a Twilight World. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Fahrländer Christian, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN http://Fahrlander.net/brian ICQ: 5119262 AOL/Yahoo/GoogleTalk: WheelDweller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp