[Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 --> 2.1.5?

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

> 1. The file says "BE SURE TO TURN OFF MAILMAN AS DESCRIBED ABOVE
>    BEFORE YOU UPGRADE." - but that isn't described above. The closest I 
> could see was a recommendation to switch off my MTA. I want to avoid 
> that if the process is going to take more than a minute, so I'm hoping I 
> can just switch off mailmanctl, but I'm using EXIM, and I think it will 
> continue to queue messages...with the wrong queue format?

SMTP is so designed that one MTA can stop for a day or more ;-)

> the exim config calls "/local/mailman/mail/mailman post" with each 
> message addressed to a mailman list. Do I need to stop this happening 
> during the upgrade? If so, then I need to take down the mailer (or make 
> it temporarily reject or hold onto the messages while I do the upgrade).

for 2.1.3 -> 2.1.5 upgrade, you can safely stop qrunners if you
don't like to stop MTA.

Actually, upgrading is much easier than first time installation
because you don't have to re-setup mailman account, web and
MTA interfaces. I sometime forget to stop MTA/Web without problem!

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