Greeting,
Is there a recommended a stable or reliable approach for migrating Mailman lists from one server to another? I have tried two methods already and, in both cases, the resulting lists were buggy. The source lists are not live (i.e. old server/host is no longer accessible). However, we copied all files/folders from the previous /var/lib/mailman/ to a folder in our new server. I guess the scenario rules out Method-#1 described on https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20%...
I also tried the steps illustrated on https://debian-administration.org/article/567/Migrating_mailman_lists. That gave me lots of errors pertaining to permissions despite running 'check_perms -f' (makes me wonder what the recommended permissions/ownership for files in /var/lib/mailman/ would be). In the end, the lists were visible via the web interface but I couldn't log into administration from there (I got an error page ... something about Mailman being buggy). Some other pages wouldn't open too. I got similar results after following https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg03127.html
Method #2 at https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20%... sounds appealing. I tried the script but python2 was looking for a path module. Is that script still supported? In any case, I'd appreciate any help I can get to bring our lists back online.
Regards Onyeibo