Hello, Just recovered from a crashed system but had problems with my mailing lists subscriptions : whatever action I tried, I got :
sublist/misc: Invalid argument Below is what I tried and how I recovered everything, just in case someone gets into this... I've read that it is probably caused by a change in the GDBM file format between the crashed machine and the newly installed one. I have created a new list (testlist2) but the "file" command gives me the same result with both the unreadable (testlist) and the readable one : # file /home/vmail/mlm/testlist/sublist/misc /home/vmail/mlm/testlist/sublist/misc: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian # file /home/vmail/mlm/testlist2/sublist/misc /home/vmail/mlm/testlist2/sublist/misc: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian I tried compiling gdbm but the provided testgdbm program is unable to list the content of either file. While writing that email to ask for help, I looked at both architectures and it happens that old system was i686 while new is amd64. So I found a i686 machine, installed couriermlm, created a dummy 'recover' list : $ couriermlm create recover ADDRESS=anyth...@anywhere.com Then I copied testlist/sublist/* to recover/sublist Then exported with : $ couriermlm export recover >recover.list Copied that file over to the amd64 machine and there : $ rm -f testlist/sublist/* $ couriermlm import testlist <recover.list Verified with : $ couriermlm lsub testlist |wc -l 10701 Phew! Backing up a plain text version of the subscription lists is better for your health. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
