The format is called 'marshal' (I think...) and its a very simple Python database format.
If you can dump out the email addresses from the database, then you can use any of the various ~mailman/bin/... command line tools for sycronizing the mailing list to the dump from the database. You don't need to know any Python. It's quite easy to do. Take a look at the FAQ for the user list. It has a few examples. Let us know if you need more help. Jon Carnes --- Original Message: Monday 04 March 2002 05:41 pm --- > I have been asked to 'automatically update' some mailing lists from an > external database. I can query this easily with Perl (sorry, never > tried python), but can not seem to connect to the config.db files for > the lists. > > What is their format? Are they Unix DB files, or a Mailman-specific > format? If so, what is the data structure? I've tried reading various > bits of the python in the Mailman directories, but am no further ahead. > > Thanks in advance for any help. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
