How to export users with ALL flags and infos and import to new server?
Hi,
I just realized that there does not seem to be a way to export / import users with ALL user flags and user info... I know list_members, but this does not seem to help with all flags, also I found some adwark script that scrapes the mailman admin web interface (?) - however it does not store language settings for all users... also it just exports to an excel file for reporting, but there does not seem to be a way to import the users back into a fresh mailman install... ???
Certainly I am not the first user who would like to copy a few mailing lists over to another server - I did not expect that this will be a major issue - how can this be achieved? I am not able to just copy the config.pck files, because the new server is a hosted mailman install, also there is a major version jump and I can not find any documentation on format changes of these files across versions... so I would like to use the commandline tools, but still maintain all available user info to appear in exactly the same way on the new host.
Thank you very much for your attention! Snaky
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Certainly I am not the first user who would like to copy a few mailing lists over to another server - I did not expect that this will be a major issue - how can this be achieved? I am not able to just copy the config.pck files, because the new server is a hosted mailman install, also there is a major version jump and I can not find any documentation on format changes of these files across versions... so I would like to use the commandline tools, but still maintain all available user info to appear in exactly the same way on the new host.
Copying the config.pck is the way to do this. There is no worry about a version jump. Mailman on the new server will upgrade the config.pck on the fly. Any upgrade should be OK.
I don't understand why you say you can't copy the config.pck. If you have sufficient access to run command line tools, you should have access to copy the config.pck, and even if you don't, the host admins may be willing to help.
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