Nicoll, Alan wrote:

I have 300 very small lists in majordomo (that is giving me problems) that I'm trying to migrate to Mailman. I, obviously, don't want to manually recreate those lists. They are all announce only; my bug tracking system uses them to send notifications to subsystem owners and developers. I run on Solaris 9 and the lists are ascii files with CR delimited email addresses in them. We have Mailman installed and working and I've read the FAQ on how to create announce only lists so I think I can configure them correctly once I get them created.

Is there a way to import the lists into Mailman?

I would create one list and tweak it via the web interface to get it the way I wanted and then write it's configuration to a file with the bin/config_list Mailman command line tool.

Then I would create a shell or similar script to loop over the list names and run the following

bin/newlist to create the list bin/config_list to configure it from the file created above, and bin/add_members to import the members from the list's <CR> delimited, ascii email address file.

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