[Mailman-Users] Possible to import mailing lists?
Ryan Steele
steele at agora-net.com
Mon Jun 19 18:46:42 CEST 2006
Mark,
Thanks for the quick reply. Here's my problem: I want to upgrade a
Mailman installation, but I don't want to do it in the production
environment. So, I have a test environment. I want to import a list
from the production environment to a Mailman installation in the test
environment, upgrade Mailman, and test that the list still works
properly. However, I don't want/need to copy every list from the
production Mailman installation. But, I guess I could try copying the
.pck's and the data members and see if that helps. When I simply copied
the files from the lists directory on the production box to the lists
directory on the test box, Mailman seemed to have a notion of the list
(I couldn't create one with the same name), but when I listed all
mailing lists from the admin interface, it did not show up in that list.
Thanks,
Ryan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ryan Steele wrote:
>
>
>> I was wondering if it is possible in Mailman 2.5.1 to import a mailing
>> list? Apparently, just copying the .pck's to the lists directory
>> doesn't do the trick.
>>
>
>
> If you're talking about a list from another Mailman installation, it
> should work provided the source list doesn't use a custom member
> adaptor. All the list configuration and membership information is in
> lists/<listname>/config.pck. requests.pck and pending.pck have
> information about held messages and unconfirmed requests. If you want
> to move held messages, you have to move the messages themselves which
> are in data/heldmsg-<listname>-nnnn.pck. There may also be a
> digest.mbox containing posts for the next digest.
>
> In general, just moving the config.pck will move the list, and moving
> archives/private/<listname>* will move the archives.
>
> If the new host has a different name, you probably also have to run
> fix_url.
>
> What specific problem did you have?
>
>
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