[Mailman-Users] Moving mailman lists

[Patrick Bogen]

As far as I know, there's no 'one click' tool to move lists around,
nor is there anything that will rewrite archives to change the old
domain (that said, a simple sed script could do this, but possibly not
reliably).

See FAQ 3.4 <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.004.htp>

On 2/21/07, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick Q,
>
> We have an organisation wanting to use our mailman server, but they want
> their own domain. Since mailman does not easily do multiple domains, in
> the short term they will accept using our domain but later want to
> extract their lists and run them under their own domain on their own
> mailman server.
>
> So, how easy would it be to "extract" all the setup info and move it to
> the new server and convert it to a new list name and a new domain at a
> later date?
>
> Does this involve hacking by hand or would it be easy to automate? Is
> there already such a tool?
>
> Could the archived items be "cleansed" of the old domain and the new
> domain be substituted? (this is probably a secondary requirement)...
>
> Unless this is easy my preference is to let them wait until they get a
> new server but they want something "now".
>
> regards
>
>
> Steven Jones
> Senior  Linux/Unix/San System Administrator
> APG -Technology Integration Team
> Victoria University of Wellington
>
>
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- Patrick Bogen