[Mailman-Users] moving Mailman lists to a new server

[Dave Scott]

I just figured this out and it all worked good.


Basically you have to move the data in your 

/var/lib/mailman/lists/
/var/lib/mailman/archives/
/var/lib/mailman/data/

This is for Debain, change for proper path on your distro
Check paths with 

Locate mailman

This will show you the paths for installed mailman files.

Once you have it moved to the new location you must run

Check_perms -f

This will fix all permission issues, really handy.

Run Check_perms with no -f to make sure everything is kosher.

Now if you changed paths on any of the lists you moved you will need to
resync the lists 

Move_lists "name of list"

That will resync the list.

I didn't have to do anything else other than this, oh yeah, and I moved
data from Mailman 1.1 to Mailman 2.08 in the process and it worked
great.

Hope this helps.

-Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org] On Behalf Of ljacobs 
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:11 AM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] moving Mailman lists to a new server

Apparently Barry Warsaw wrote a FAQ for this purpose to the
Mailman-Developers list. Does anyone know the date of his posting? Or is
there another source for the best practices to move a list & the related
files to a new server?

Thanks. 




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