[Mailman-Users] 2nd request: migrating a list from 1.1 to 2.1 hosts?

[Matthew Davis]

* Tom Neff (tneff at grassyhill.org) wrote:
> There seem to be some other threads capturing people's attention, but Barry 
> has logged in and sent mail a couple of times :), so I'm assuming this fell 
> through the cracks.
> 
> I have some lists on a host running MM1.1, and a new host running MM2.1.  I 
> need to move the 1.1 lists over to the new host.  Is there a robust way to 
> do this?

-[ From mailman-2.1/UPGRADING ]-

UPGRADING FROM 1.x to 2.x

    In addition to the instructions above, I highly recommend that you
    make sure your Mailman queue is cleared /before/ upgrading.

    Mailman version 1.x had a cron script called run_queue which was
    part of its bulk mailer.  With Mailman 2.x there is no default
    bulk mailer (it lets the MTA handle this), and it is currently
    unknown what the effects of upgrading are on the run_queue script,
    but I'll bet it's not good. :)

    The way to make sure that your Mailman queue is empty is to look
    in your $prefix/data directory.  If you see any files that start
    with "mm_q." you've still got messages waiting on the queue.  You
    can run $prefix/cron/run_queue by hand until the queue is cleared.
    Multiple invocations of this script won't help though; they lock
    each other out.  Also, be warned that clearing the queue can take
    a while and may cause a large load on your system (two reasons why
    all this stuff has been redesigned in 2.x :).

    You do not need to run "make update" if you are upgrading from
    version 1.0 or 1.1 to version 2.0, since this is now run
    automatically when you do a "make install".  However you should
    modify your crontab entries to execute cron/qrunner instead of
    cron/run_queue.  You can also safely remove the file
    $prefix/cron/run_queue.

    If you are upgrading from a pre-1.0 beta, you need to follow the
    instructions below.

-[ End Section ]-

The rest of the doc is a good read.  It's not there just to make the tarball
bigger.


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Matthew Davis
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