[Mailman-Users] config.db format?

[Jon Carnes]

The format is called 'marshal' (I think...) and its a very simple Python 
database format.  

If you can dump out the email addresses from the database, then you can use 
any of the various ~mailman/bin/... command line tools for sycronizing the 
mailing list to the dump from the database.  You don't need to know any 
Python.

It's quite easy to do.  Take a look at the FAQ for the user list.  It has a 
few examples.  Let us know if you need more help.

Jon Carnes
 
 --- Original Message: Monday 04 March 2002 05:41 pm ---
> I have been asked to 'automatically update' some mailing lists from an
> external database.  I can query this easily with Perl (sorry, never
> tried python), but can not seem to connect to the config.db files for
> the lists.
>
> What is their format?  Are they Unix DB files, or a Mailman-specific
> format? If so, what is the data structure?  I've tried reading various
> bits of the python in the Mailman directories, but am no further ahead.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.