[Mailman-Users] Extracting e-mail addresses from a dead machine

[Dragon]

Mark Sapiro sent the message below at 07:48 12/12/2007:
>Visvanath Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> >I have the data backup from a dead machine. The list is not moved
> >to a new server (yet). Therefore I have no running system of Mailman.
> >
> >Is there a way of extracting the e-mail addresses from this (data)
> >backup?

<snip>

>If you did have access to a Mailman installation, you could run
>Mailman's bin/dumpdb against the config.pck which would produce output
>easier to deal with, or you could create a lists/<listname>/ directory
>in that installation, put the config.pck in it and run
>"bin/list_members -f -p <listname>"
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Is it really necessary to have a fully functioning Mailman 
installation to do this?

Would it not be sufficient to have Python installed, a copy of the 
dumpdb script and the config.pck file?





Dragon

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