David Roth wrote:

I'm helping out a friend. His server had a hardware failure. He has a backup, and has retrieved the Mailman files for the mailing list he maintains. The mailman directory he sent me has the following directories at the top level:

archives data lists spam

His goal is to extract the e-mail addresses of the subscribers so he can re-invite them to a new mailing list system.

If the new mailing list system is Mailman, all that needs to be done is move the lists/LISTNAME/config.pck file to the new installation and baybe the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox file to use in rebuilding the archives. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/2oA9> and posts linked therefrom.

How can I extract the e-mail addresses of the subscribers? I looked around in the files and unless I missed something there doesn't appear to be a text file with a list of the e-mail addresses. I'm guessing that I could install Mailman on my Linux server and do something to extract these e-mail addresses?

The addresses are in the config.pck. You can run 'strings' on that and filter out email addresses. If you have a Mailman installation, Mailman's bin/dumpdb will dump the config.pck in a more usable form and bin/list_members will list the members.

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