Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists with large archives to new server

2015-01-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 01/30/2015 03:09 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: My question revolves around the list archives. If I start Mailman up before they are copied across, it is likely there will be waiting messages and these will get archived to a new mbox file. I want to reduce downtime in moving the lists,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists to new server - question on specific files

2014-07-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/18/2014 01:27 PM, Alfred Pope wrote: 1) I'm moving the lists from version 2.1.9 on Solaris 10 to version 2.1.18-1 on Ubuntu. In an older post from Barry (which I cannot find now) he seems to indicate the list configuration files under mailman/lists/listname/ have not changed in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: The steps I sent the other day are OK as is, but some uncertainty is removed. Just to report that, so far as I can tell, everything went as expected. There was no reference to the domain in the config.pck file, so I could just run the withlist command

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: See attached. I've not yet tried the procedure, so hopefully you'll have looked at it if I run into trouble. Either way I'll give you a blow-by-blow account of how it goes. I have looked at the cPanel 2.1.12cp3 code and made a diff to the 2.1.12 base, and it is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-15 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Basically cPanel Mailman is Mailman. In particular, config.pck files are the same (there are no additional list attributes) and the file structure within the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman PREFIX directory seems completely unchanged. So does this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 4/15/2010 1:35 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: So does this mean any changes to the instructions you send the other day? The steps I sent the other day are OK as is, but some uncertainty is removed. Here are some notes. 1) Create a list the cPanel way on cPanel. it should have the same name as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's actually not as bad as it looks. Mark wrote an assembler language level description of where to get the data you'll need, and what to do with it. Oh I'm not particularly daunted by it, especially after rereading it a couple of times. But

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: I have someone moving their lists off our server which runs regular Mailman to a server running Mailman under CPanel. Since it's a Mailman variant, I'm a bit reluctant to just copy stuff en mass over there, not that I'd be installing it anyway. On the other hand, the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I will assume the people on the cPanel side have shell access to the server. If not, there's not much that can be done. Wow, that's quite a daunting list of things to do. I'm not sure the admin at the hosting provider will be game to try this, but I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Geoff Shang writes: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I will assume the people on the cPanel side have shell access to the server. If not, there's not much that can be done. Wow, that's quite a daunting list of things to do. It's actually not as bad as it looks. Mark wrote

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists on one box with several virtual hosts

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Paul Kleeberg wrote: I have several Mailman lists on one box that has several virtual sites. I need to move them to a new box and I want to change the web address for users to manage their addresses from virtual1.tld to www.virtual1.tld. Looking at both config_list and with_list, I do not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists... my final challenge

2009-02-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jeff Bernier wrote: Is it possible to take these older archives and move them over to be added to the archives of the current lists on the new system? It is not a must-have, but would be nice. Get the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox files from the old server. Stop Mailman on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists... my final challenge

2009-02-11 Thread Jeff Bernier
Thank you Mark, That worked flawlessly. The list members will appreciate seeing all the archive history. Regards, Jeff Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net 2/11/2009 12:34 PM Jeff Bernier wrote: Is it possible to take these older archives and move them over to be added to the archives of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists to New Host

2009-01-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Don McGregor wrote: I'm moving a list manager to a new box, and at the same time bumping up the version of mailman. I copied archives and the lists directory over, installed the 2.1.12rc1 version on top of the old 2.1.9 version. bin/list_lists shows all the old lists when run on the new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists without shell access

2008-11-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: on 11/18/08 6:36 PM, Scott Race said: Is there a way to move lists from one server to another without shell access? I am able to download the archives from the admin interface, but don't have ssh access Thanks! There's no way to import the archives without using the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists without shell access

2008-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
on 11/18/08 6:36 PM, Scott Race said: Is there a way to move lists from one server to another without shell access? I am able to download the archives from the admin interface, but don't have ssh access Thanks! There's no way to import the archives without using the command-line

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists

2008-10-29 Thread Brad Knowles
Jeff Bernier wrote: I have a new server running our new Mailman Lists. I also have an older system containing Mailman lists that I want to migrate to the new server. Is this possible? If so... how is it done? The Mailman FAQ Wizard at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Knowles
On 5/24/07, carconni wrote: I'm moving postfix's /var/spool to /mounted_file_share/mail/var/spool and I've changed the path in the main.cf file to point to it. Postfix is not designed to be used on a shared filesystem. In fact, most shared filesystems violate some rules that most local

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Knowles
On 5/24/07, Brad Knowles wrote: In short, I'd avoid this kind of solution like the plague, as far as postfix is concerned. It may be okay to store certain types of user mailboxes out on NFS (or other shared filesystem type), but not the mail queues themselves. I should also say that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists

2007-05-24 Thread carconni
Brad, Thank you! It sounds like you've saved me a lot of heartache. We have a Netapps that I was hoping to mount on the mail server and was hoping I could avoid losing mail when the mail server ran into problems. It's my understanding that the next version on Leopard will support mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Knowles
On 5/24/07, carconni wrote: Thank you! It sounds like you've saved me a lot of heartache. We have a Netapps that I was hoping to mount on the mail server and was hoping I could avoid losing mail when the mail server ran into problems. You can copy stuff up there, as a periodic backup

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 1/29/07, G. Armour Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, where do I dig up the membership list, and how do I deal with all the old URLs? FAQ 3.4 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.004.htp should help with this. Let us know if you still have issues. -- - Patrick

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists between virtual domains.

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Orlando Reis wrote: Hi all, athough this question as been posted in the past and I have searched and searched the mailing list I haven't found a simple a and clear solution to the problem. I have my default mailman URL at www.mainhost.com And have several other vhosts added

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists between virtual domains.

2007-01-29 Thread Orlando Reis
Thanks for you reply mark. I had little time to do it and that was what I did, after doing that for each of the lists I wanted to move, I got several errors. I then remembered, I don't know if that is mandatory, to regenerate virtual-mailman.db using genaliases commmand. so the steps I took per

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Patrick, The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman. Something about my last attempt to upgrade Mailman there broke it. I'm putting this function on a new server because I just don't have time to figure out the problem on the old one, and the new one has enough

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
A little more digging suggests it may be possible to extract the data with the dumpdb command run against the config.pck. That provides a lot of stuff that isn't needed, like the bounce status of the members which is hardly of interest after the time the server has been offline, but the users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman. Something about my last attempt to upgrade Mailman there broke it. I'm putting this function on a new server because I just don't have time to figure out the problem on the old one, and the new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Mark, Thanks. ../../bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname worked like a charm. I'm sure there's some cleanup to do, but I'll bet that took care of most of it. Van Mark Sapiro wrote: G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman.

Re: [Mailman-Users] moving lists from one server to another

2005-04-11 Thread John Dennis
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:59 -0400, Dave Pisarek wrote: Hello all, I am new to mailman and need to move around 200 lists from one server to another. I am looking for an easy way and fast way to do so. If someone could explain how or point me to good docs on how to do this I would greatly

Re: [Mailman-Users] moving lists from one server to another

2005-04-11 Thread Dave Pisarek
On Apr 11, 2005 2:54 PM, John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:59 -0400, Dave Pisarek wrote: Hello all, I am new to mailman and need to move around 200 lists from one server to another. I am looking for an easy way and fast way to do so. If someone could explain

Re: [Mailman-Users] moving lists from one server to another

2005-04-11 Thread Dave Pisarek
On Apr 11, 2005 3:19 PM, Dave Pisarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 11, 2005 2:54 PM, John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:59 -0400, Dave Pisarek wrote: Hello all, I am new to mailman and need to move around 200 lists from one server to another. I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] moving lists from one server to another

2005-04-11 Thread John Dennis
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 15:23 -0400, Dave Pisarek wrote: One thing that I do not have is a var directory in mailman. Below is the what I have after I su - mailman bash-2.05$ pwd /usr/mailman bash-2.05$ ls Mailmanarchives cgi-bindata icons locks mail pythonlib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Lists between Systems/versions of Mailman

2003-11-05 Thread Nate Perry-Thistle
Ken, I recently upgraded and migrated at the same time. However, this was from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3. I turned off external mail/web access to Mailman, confirmed I had no mail left to be processed and then tar'd n' zipped the 2.1.2 installation. I moved and unpacked it on the new box and then ran