[Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

Marc MERLIN marc_news at valinux.com
Fri Oct 12 00:24:35 CEST 2001


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.

Marc
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