[Mailman-Users] majordomo mailinglist migration to mailman

[Jana Nguyen]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Jana Nguyen wrote:
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>>I need to migrate mailing list from majordomo to mailman.  I didn't see 
>>any instructions to do this, what
>>are the steps?
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>There is an old perl script, majordomo2mailman.pl, in the contrib
>directory in the Mailman distribution that may or may not be helpful.
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To run this script the majordomo has to be setup on the same machine 
that is running mailman?  When I tried to run this script on different
machine that is running mailman it's looking for majordomo config 
location, error below.  I just copied the majordomo mailing list over to 
mailman
machine and run the script:

[root at app-0-0 contrib]# ./majordomo2mailman.pl 
/tmp/bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox/bcc-portal-dev.archive.0512.mbox

can't open 
/var/lib/majordomo/lists//tmp/bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox/bcc-portal-dev.archive.0512.mbox.config

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>>If I copy the mailing list from majordomo to mailman at the following 
>>location:
>>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/
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>You need somehow to export the majordomo archive as a mbox format file
>(a flat file with raw messages separated by lines that begin "From "
>with email address and date), and then use Mailman's bin/arch tool to
>build the archive from the mbox.
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To enable this to work, I found out that you need to have an existing 
mailman mailing list if not it can't find the "mylist":

[root at birn-app-0-0 mailman]# ./bin/arch --wipe 
bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bcc-portal-dev.a
rchive.mbox

No such list "bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox"