Melinda wrote: >I could use some pointers in my conversion from Listproc to Mailman. I am >also going from a Solaris machine to a Redhat Linux. I am very very new to >Unix, Linux and could use some help in my conversion over to the new machine >with Mailman. How exactly can I get my old Listproc Lists merged over to >this new mailman machine. How does mailman get its address? What will >happen to my old address of the old list when created with the new list? >Can I keep them the same??
This question is so broad as to be almost beyond the scope of this list. I'll just say a few things. First, I know nothing about Listproc so I can't comment in how Listproc settings/configurations map to Mailman. As far as moving lists is concerned, you have three main areas of concern - list behavior (configuration), membership and archives. As I said, I can't speak about mapping behavior as I don't know Listproc. For membership, you need to be able to export a flat file of members (or two separate files of regular and digest members) in a standard format like Users Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... and this can be easily used to populate the Mailman list. List archives need to be exported as a flat file in *nix mbox format, and this can be used to create a Mailman archive. For list addresses, Mailman works in conjunction with an MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, etc.) which receives mail sent to a particular domain or domains and uses aliases or other methods to determine whether the local part of the address is a mailman address and if so, delivers the mail to Mailman by piping it to Mailman's mail wrapper. Each list has a set of addresses. The list posting address for a list named test in the example.com domain is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every list also has 9 other associated addresses, in this example they are [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (deprecated), [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for various purposes. If your old domain is going to map to your new machine, you should be able to keep the same list addresses. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
