[Mailman-Users] Migrating from one server to another

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Adam Cripps wrote:

> We are in the process of migrating our old mailman server to another
> piece of hardware. Currently the new hardware is a Suse server running
> sendmail, with a mailman package installed (I'm not sure which
> version). The old server is running Mailman 2.1.4. The Suse server has
> apache installed and working sucessfully along with sendmail sending
> and receiving mail. The next step is Mailman.
>
> What is the best plan of action for migrating the existing lists from
> one server to another? Would it be to copy over the files which
> control each list in to the software that is already installed on the
> Suse server?

That is what I've done recently. Make sure that the mailman installations
are compatible and test the new setup before copying lists across. Also
make sure Apache works as expected etc.

Cheers,
	Gerhard