[Mailman-Users] importing held messages from dr system

[Lawren Quigley-Jones]

That did it.  Thank you very much for the help.

On 2/20/07, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
> Lawren Quigley-Jones wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to import held messages from one mail system to
> another?  I
> >have multiple mailman servers but only manage them from one web
> interface.
> >When a message gets held on one of the mail servers that is not primary
> it
> >is not accessible via the web interface.  I've tried simply copying the
> pck
> >file over, but they aren't recognized.  A restart of mailman doesn't do
> the
> >trick either.   I imagine that I would need to initiated a rebuild of a
> >database.
>
>
> Sort of, but not really a rebuild. When a message is held, an entry is
> made in the list's request.pck file pointing to the held message. This
> is what is needed for the message to be recognized on the other
> server. There is also a confirmation cookie created in the list's
> pending.pck which points to the request.pck entry so that the message
> can be approved or discarded via cookie.
>
> I don't really understand how your 'multiple mailman servers' work, but
> I think you have two choices.
>
> Perhaps the most straightforward is to set admin_immed_notify to Yes
> and then approve or discard the message via email.
>
> The other choice is to make sure there are no held messages for the
> list on the primary server and then copy the data/heldmsg* files and
> the requests.pck file for the list. Note that there is no way to
> rebuild the request.pck entry from the heldmsg file because it
> contains necessary information that isn't in the heldmsg file.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
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