Kim Leandersson wrote: > >I've read some pages telling me that the administrative addresses has >changed between these versions. I'm not sure if the best way is: > >1) to create the lists on the new server, use the config-list script to >export the config and the import this on the new server
Not the best way for two reasons. When you dump the config with config_list -o and then import with config_list -i, the 2.0 attributes which are redefined/replaced in 2.1 won't be properly converted. Transferring the list membership (via list_members -> add_members) doesn't preserve all member options. >2) just manually copy the lists/listname and archives directories to the >new server This is the way to go. Caveats - Do not create the list on the new server before the transfer. If you do, you will create a lists/listname/config.pck and Mailman will never see to lists/listname/config.db you move over. Does the domain name change? If so, you'll need to run fix_url on the moved lists and may want to rebuild the archives with bin/arch --wipe in order to fix the absolute links to the listinfo page on the archive index pages (or you can fix these manually or with a script). You will also have to deal with telling qmail about the lists, but I can't help with that. >3) upgrade the old server to 2.1.5 and the move to new server? No need to do this. 2) is sufficient. >At this moment I prefer 1) since I'm really not that familiar with qmail >and it would be nice if the system handled the creation of aliases. Mailman doesn't know qmail aliases. Mailman can do Postfix automatically (MTA = 'Postfix'), and exim and maybe others can be configured so aliases are not needed. There is a qmail-to-mailman.py script in the contrib directory of the distribution to eliminate the need for aliases in qmail, but I don't know to use it or what its limitations are. >But >how should I then procede? Should I run config-list to export/import or >can I just copy som directories to the new server and fix the >permissions and the URL:s? Do the latter as I indicate above. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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