[Mailman-Users] list_members question

[Jon Carnes]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 21:42, Michael Hubbard wrote:
> I've recently been given repsonsibilities over a site that runs mailman lists... I'm not new to mailman - but I've run into a problem that I just can't resolve.
> 
> The original list owner is unreliable... I've emailed, called, etc... he's pretty much just given up supporting the old site and lists... 
> 
> I have the mailing lists setup and running on the new server, but I don't have the membership list added yet.  I have ssh access to the old server (so I could copy the site files, etc.), but not mailman access.  So I can't seem to do a list_members <listname>.  
> 
> Is there anyway I can extract the members from a file without running list_members?  Or is the mailing list screwed unti this guy calls?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 

Can you copy over the ~mailman/lists/<listname>/config.* lists from the
old server?  If so then you can backup your config files and then copy
these over them, then run the list_members on those old config files.

If you can't read the old config files, then you'll have to get work
with the admin of that server to get those files or have him run the
commands you need.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes