[Mailman-Users] A little help with Mailman?

Brian Fahrlander Brian at fahrlander.net
Sun Apr 23 21:25:49 CEST 2006


    Mailman is a well-made product; it's slick, simple, reliable,
everything you'd want from a mailing list but one: a clearness of
documentation.  I've installed it three times, and I swear I don't know
how I did it.  Sendmail, on the other hand, when you've installed it,
you *know* how you did it, ya know?

    That's what's making things hard for us, over here. The OS is Fedora
Core 4 (Ubuntu's RAID-setup isn't easy, yet) and we're running the most
recent RPM available, mailman-2.1.5-35.fc4.

    A server was running this for several years- long enough to start to
worry about the reliability of the disk drives, and long enough for
subsequent admins to make some mistakes that turned a bit messy.  So we
take the old drive, set it for IDE secondary-master, put in a new drive,
and mounted the old drive, Read-only, as /archive until we're completely
transitioned.

    And ya know- I coulda *sworn* the actual list of subscribers was in
a text file, but it isn't.

    Key questions:

    1. What, explicitly, do I copy from the archive to get the lists
back, and what steps do I take to make them work?  Simply copying the
files that seem right, don't work at all. I suspect the binary to check
the configuration will be involved, but the docs are driving me up a
tree.

    2. Am I doing this right? Usually when you spend a couple of days
Googling for a project and turn up nothing, it means I'm doing something
wrong...

-- 
Don't be fooled by lovesongs and lonely hearts...you're living in a
Twilight World. 
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