[Mailman-Users] Possible to import mailing lists?

[Ryan Steele]

Mark,

Great advice!  That withlist binary did the trick!  Thanks for the 
helpful support, I appreciate it.

Best,
Ryan

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ryan Steele wrote:
>
>   
>> When I simply copied 
>> the files from the lists directory on the production box to the lists 
>> directory on the test box, Mailman seemed to have a notion of the list 
>> (I couldn't create one with the same name), but when I listed all 
>> mailing lists from the admin interface, it did not show up in that list. 
>>     
>
>
> That's because the test box has a different domain name and
> VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is it's default Yes value. You can see the list
> either by running
>
> bin/withlist -l -r fix_url <listname>
>
> on the test box or by putting
>
> VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = Off
>
> in mm_cfg.py.
>
> See
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.062.htp>.
>
>