Camelia Botez wrote: >I installed Using Mailman version 2.0.11 on solaris9 and works fine. >Now , we are in process to replace our web server with a linux computer >on which I installed mailman-2.1.9. >How can I migrate all the mailing lists from the old version into the >new one
Mailman is very good at updating lists from older versions. All you need to do to migrate the list itself is move the lists/<listname>/config.db files from the old installation to the new. You need to make sure there is not already a lists/<listname>/config.pck or config.pck.last, because if there is, Mailman won't see the config.db. See <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-July/057770.html>. Note that in that post, I say the one can run bin/config_list -i /dev/null listname to force 'listname' to be converted. Actually, just running bin/list_lists is sufficient to convert all the old lists after there config.db files have been installed. Also see the advice in that post about removing the config.db after the list is converted. >and how can I use the old aliases build when a new list is >opened on the new aliases form ? I'm not sure how your aliases are being generated, but the old aliases are no good. After you get your lists migrated, you should be able to run bin/genaliases to create (or at least list) the required aliases. One final thing is archives. I recommend just moving the archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox files from the old server, checking them with bin/cleanarch and then building new archives with bin/arch --wipe. You want to have Mailman not running (bin/mailmanctl stop) during the list migration and .mbox move process or you could lose archived messages if posts are processed after the list exists on the new server and before the .mbox is moved. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ 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
