[Mailman-Users] Format of database?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JR" == John Reekie <johnr at eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

    JR> Hi folks, what format are the configuration databases
    JR> for mailman in? Is it dbm?

    JR> Also, is there any documentation on the structure of
    JR> the db? I need to modify the db from another program.

Its raw, on-disk format is a Python marshal.  You can essentially do
the following to get a the database:

import marshal
fp = open('/home/mailman/lists/mylist/config.db')
dict = marshal.load(fp)
fp.close()

-Barry