Mark, Thanks for the quick reply. Here's my problem: I want to upgrade a Mailman installation, but I don't want to do it in the production environment. So, I have a test environment. I want to import a list from the production environment to a Mailman installation in the test environment, upgrade Mailman, and test that the list still works properly. However, I don't want/need to copy every list from the production Mailman installation. But, I guess I could try copying the .pck's and the data members and see if that helps. When I simply copied the files from the lists directory on the production box to the lists directory on the test box, Mailman seemed to have a notion of the list (I couldn't create one with the same name), but when I listed all mailing lists from the admin interface, it did not show up in that list.
Thanks, Ryan Mark Sapiro wrote: > Ryan Steele wrote: > > >> I was wondering if it is possible in Mailman 2.5.1 to import a mailing >> list? Apparently, just copying the .pck's to the lists directory >> doesn't do the trick. >> > > > If you're talking about a list from another Mailman installation, it > should work provided the source list doesn't use a custom member > adaptor. All the list configuration and membership information is in > lists/<listname>/config.pck. requests.pck and pending.pck have > information about held messages and unconfirmed requests. If you want > to move held messages, you have to move the messages themselves which > are in data/heldmsg-<listname>-nnnn.pck. There may also be a > digest.mbox containing posts for the next digest. > > In general, just moving the config.pck will move the list, and moving > archives/private/<listname>* will move the archives. > > If the new host has a different name, you probably also have to run > fix_url. > > What specific problem did you have? > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
