[Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Mike Avery]

I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted 
mailing list.  The only way I see to do that is to delete 
it and start over, but I really don't want to do that.

Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list?

Thanks,
Mike
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[Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Heather J. Lubinsky]

I need to change the name of a list --but I do not know how.

Does anyone know how?

I am on mailman v2.0.8

Heather Lubinsky
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[Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Estelle Weyl]

Is there a way to change the name of an existing list.  I have been
searching far and wide on the server for a place to use the vi editor to
edit a database file or something on the server, but I can't find where
"real_name" variable is stored.

Thanks for any guidance.

-Estelle


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Mike Avery wrote:

> I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted
> mailing list.  The only way I see to do that is to delete
> it and start over, but I really don't want to do that.
>
> Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list?

I've never tried this, however others have claimed to be able to do
this by simple renaming the aliases, renaming the list directories and
archive names, and then setting the name correctly in the
configuration.  I'd say backup that list before you start fiddling with
it. :)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Jon Carnes]

> I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted
> mailing list.  The only way I see to do that is to delete
> it and start over, but I really don't want to do that.
>
> Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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You could just change the aliases and setup some links for the web aliasing,
that would be a workaround, but it wouldn't exactly be clean.

I would advocate creating the new list, and setting up its email aliases.
Instead of configuring the new list, use config_list -o to dump out the
configuration of the old list to file, then edit the data in that file to
reflect the name change and import the file into your new list using
config_list -i.
Next move the users over with the commands list_members (-r for regular, -d
for digest users) to dump out lists of the old members, and the command
add_members (-n for regular, -d for digest) to add members to the new list.

It's too bad the command dumpdb is not reversible, because then you could do
it in just a few steps,  dump out the contents of the old config file to a
temporary file, grep and change the old name to the new, the feed the file
back into the new mailman config.db.

Take care and good luck!

Jon Carnes


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Mike Avery]

On 11 Oct 2001 at 15:24, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:05:47PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: 

>> Mike Avery wrote:
>>> I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted
>>> mailing list.  The only way I see to do that is to delete 
>>> it and start over, but I really don't want to do that. Is
>>> there a clean way to rename a mailing list?

>> I've never tried this, however others have claimed to 
>> be able to do this by simple renaming the aliases,
>> renaming the list directories and archive
>> names, and then setting the name correctly in the 
>> configuration. 
>> I'd say backup that list before you start fiddling with  
>> it. :)
 
> Barry posted a very exhaustive step by step set of instructions.

> Read the archives.

A check shows Barry's comments were about two months 
back, and the instructions were exhaustive, but they 
worked.

Thanks to Marc and Barry for the pointer and the 
instructions.  

Barry asked that $100,000 in pennies be sent to him and 
the Mailman developers if we want to see the process 
automated and simplified.  That's a bit past my budget 
limits, but I think some people would think it was worth 
it.  My advice is, "name your lists the way you want them 
the first time!"

Mike
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:05:47PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Mike Avery wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted
> > mailing list.  The only way I see to do that is to delete
> > it and start over, but I really don't want to do that.
> >
> > Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list?
> 
> I've never tried this, however others have claimed to be able to do
> this by simple renaming the aliases, renaming the list directories and
> archive names, and then setting the name correctly in the
> configuration.  I'd say backup that list before you start fiddling with
> it. :)

and running ~mailman/bin/move_list on the resulting list.

Barry posted a very exhaustive step by step set of instructions.

Read the archives.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

[Barry A. Warsaw]

> "HJL" == Heather J Lubinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

HJL> I need to change the name of a list --but I do not know how.

HJL> Does anyone know how?

HJL> I am on mailman v2.0.8

http://www.list.org/MM21/faq.html

Scroll down to the last question.

HTH,
-Barry

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