migrating mailman to a new box
I'm moving our current mailman to a new box. We want to migrate all the data (lists, archives, and configuration files), except for the hostname and web_url will be change on the new box. Below are the steps, not sure if this is a good way of migrating mailman from current to new box?
Move the entire contents of the archives/ lists/ and directories
fix the host_name and web_page_url attributes of the list with "withlist", "fix_url", and rebuild the archives with 'bin/arch --wipe'
Not sure if we have to rebuild the archives if I'm already running fix_url with withlist?
Thanks!
Jana Nguyen wrote:
Below are the steps, not sure if this is a good way of migrating mailman from current to new box?
Move the entire contents of the archives/ lists/ and directories
fix the host_name and web_page_url attributes of the list with "withlist", "fix_url", and rebuild the archives with 'bin/arch --wipe'
Not sure if we have to rebuild the archives if I'm already running fix_url with withlist?
Yes. The steps are good, and you do want to rebuild the archives. Most links in the archives are relative and not a problem, but there are absolute links to scrubbed attachments and listinfo pages, and these will have to be recreated to have the correct host. 'bin/arch --wipe' will do this.
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