[Mailman-Users] Backing Up the List of Members

[Malcolm Austen]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:21:27 -0000, Mailman Admin  
<mailman-admin at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

> On 11/15/2010 07:08 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
>>
>> I am now having the problem: I wish to back up the list of
>> members of a couple of my lists to my home machine.  I used to
>> get all the members on one page.  Now the members are alphabetized
>> and each initial letter is put on a diffent page.  I can still
>> back-up, but it is a laborious process.
>
> As list admin you can set
> "General Options" --> "admin_member_chunksize"
> to a value bigger than the number of currently subscribed members.
> With that you get the old behaviour back with all members on one page
> instead of split into seperate alphabetized chunks.
>
> With this you don't need access to the console.

A trick I've used on a hosted mailman that has not been updated to have  
the chunk-size option (it's 2.1.9), is to save the list-admin's subscriber  
list page at <../mailman/roster/list-name>. This is in two columns  
(message and digest) and has extra parentheses where delivery is disabled,  
and the addresses are obfuscated ... but nothing that cannot be unravelled  
with a few lines of Perl ;-)

regards, Malcolm.

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Malcolm Austen, Oxfordshire, England