[Mailman-Users] changing message number

[Mustafa Akgul]

> 
> Mustafa Akgul wrote:
> >
> >I will move  a few lists  to mailman,  from ecartis.
> >I want to retain  message numbers, and continue current
> >sequence. So  I need to  start message number  from a
> >non-zero number.
> >
> >How can I do that ?
> >
> >I am new to mailman. I can  undump,  config.pck, I can chnage
> >post-id.  I do not know, how to put that  fiile in pck  format.
> >
> >Secondly, I manage to change  post-id,  will it break anything
> >else ?
> 
> 
> You can change post_id (not post-id). It won't break anything.
> 
> Two ways to set post_id are bin/withlist and bin/config_list. With
> either method, you need to set post_id to a floating point value.
> E.g., if you want to set it to 237, you need to set it to 237.0. This
> can be done by putting the single line
> 
> mlist.post_id = 237.0
> 
> in a file and running
> 
> bin/config_list -i /path/to/file listname
> 

I have  tried  this method. It worked fine.

Many thanks 

Mustafa Akgul

> You can also set post_id in an interactive withlist session. E.g., for
> a list named test
> 
> $ bin/withlist -l test
> Loading list test (locked)
> The variable `m' is the test MailList instance
> >>> m.post_id
> 0.0
> >>> m.post_id = 237.0
> >>> m.post_id
> 237.0
> >>> m.Save()
> >>>
> Unlocking (but not saving) list: test
> Finalizing
> $
> 
> The last input following the m.Save() input is a control-D (end of
> file).
> 
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