[Mailman-Developers] migration from Majordomo to Mailman

[Heiko Rommel]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>
> >>>>> "HR" == Heiko Rommel <rommel@suse.de> writes:
>
>     HR> just in case somebody finds it usefull I'm including a perl
>     HR> script that will largely easy the migration from Majordomo to
>     HR> Mailman 2.0 - especially if you have more than a few lists.
>
> Cool.  Have you tried it with MM2.1?

No, I didn't.

>
>     HR> The process of migration is only half-automatic since there
>     HR> are a bunch of params in Majordomo which have no exact
>     HR> counterpart in Mailman.  On the other hand, there are some new
>     HR> params in Mailman which had to be set to a default value.
>
>     HR> The script is far from being perfect - but it worked from me
>     HR> and the 208 lists I had to migrate ;-)
>
> It's written in that /other/ P-language, but I guess since you're
> migrating we can forgive you :).
>

I really hoped that - especially 'cause I'm learning the more recent P-language now ;-)

> May I add this to the contrib subdirectory?  Would you mind
> re-releasing it with a GPL license?
>

Please go ahead. GPL is just fine.

> -Barry
>

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