[Mailman-Users] Migrating lists to new server...

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Thu Apr 14 16:48:55 CEST 2005


Well, I had already created the aliases. The problem is the addresses 
really didn't come with them.  What file(s) are the addresses kept in so 
I can verify this?

--Tony

Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2005, at 22:40, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to successfully migrate all lists and associated accounts 
>> over to a new server.  I copied everythign in the /lists and /data 
>> directories.  This seemed to produce the lists just fine but none of 
>> the addresses tied to each list came with them.  Thoughts?
>
>
> (You will probably also want to copy the archives and mm_cfg.py 
> customizations.)
>
> If you copied the contents of the lists directory, that contains all 
> of the subscriber addresses.
>
> If you mean the addresses to reach the mailing lists, you will also 
> need to copy or recreate all of the aliases that pipe mail into 
> mailman (unless you use an MTA scheme that automatically detects the 
> lists, which is most common for Exim users).  the bin/genaliases 
> command can (re)build the complete list of aliases for your lists.  
> (If you are using Postfix, you will also want to tell it where to find 
> the aliases in the data directory... details are in README.POSTFIX.)
>




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