On Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 18:24:59 -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: > Oliver Hookins wrote: > >> I've got a list which is on a machine that will be decommissioned soon. I >> have to move it to another machine, but that destination machine already >> has a list with the same name. I'm guessing I will have to rename the list >> no matter what, but I can still have the same email addresses pointing to it >> right? > > You'll have to rename the list, but once it's renamed, the senders should > be able to use whatever addresses they want to send to the list. > > But maybe I misunderstood the question?
No, that was it exactly. Thanks. >> The other unfortunate aspect of this situation is that the source machine >> has Mailman 2.1.5, and the destination has 2.0.9. Is this likely to cause >> big problems? > > Yeah, I don't think that's going to work so well -- the binary on-disk > representation of the list configuration changed between 2.0.x and 2.1.x, > and while Mailman makes it easy to upgrade, there are no downgrade tools > I know of. Certainly, you won't be able to move the list configuration > pickle files. > > You can dump the list of users to a text file and then re-import that on > the older server, but it's going to be hard to capture all the other > aspects of the list configuration. It's not such a big list that I can't do some of the migration by hand, maybe I can unpickle the data, alter it a bit and repickle it in the new format. -- Regards, Oliver ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
