[Mailman-Users] How do I recover email addresses?

[Jon Carnes]

I don't know about ancient times (like back in the days of MM v1.1) but the
databases today are stored off the home directory of mailman (generally:
/home/mailman/lists/<listname>/....).  If you look at the commands that come
with Mailman you will find several that can be of help to you:
  list_members
  dumpdb

To get "list_members" to work, you may have to move the directory structure
so that the lists once again hang off of the home directory of the user
Mailman.

If you have trouble accessing them, then let us know, I'll wager that
someone on the list can crack open the databases and get at the list info
for you.

Good Luck,
Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Rea" <trea at reatech.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:12 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] How do I recover email addresses?


> I recently had to completely reformat my primary harddrive and reinstall
> Linux from scratch.  I had to do this because someone hacked into my box
and
> messed everything up.  The admins at my datacenter did the reinstall and
now
> my system is back up.
>
> The good news is that I have a second disk in the machine that is a backup
> of the primary disk so I have a backup of ALL my files.  Now I am
> reinstalling everything from scratch including Mailman.  I was using
Mailman
> 1.1.  Now I am installing Mailman 2.1.  I was managing several mailing
lists
> for my customers using Mailman 1.1.
>
> My question:
> How can I retrieve all the emails for the old mailing lists?  I have all
the
> files but have not been able to locate the "database" that contains all
the
> email addresses for each mailing list.  I would like to install and
> configure Mailman 2.1 and recreate the mailing lists.  Then I want to
> retrieve all the email addresses from the old files/"databases" and import
> them into the new mailing lists.  Can this be done?  I hope so since my
> customers have lists with thousands of email addresses and there is no way
> for me to recreate the list of addresses unless I can retrieve them from
the
> old backup files.
>
> Can you help me?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Rea
>
>
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