On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 16:14 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> in the face of zillions of bounce/unsubscribes thanks to the DMARC mess,
> what I'd like to do is get the sysadmin to snapshot the list members
> from, say, a week ago. Then when we get things cleaned up I can
> 'restore' the list as it was. I don't know how to do it and I tried
> googling and only found:
>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-March/027011.html
>
> which said
>
> ~/mailman/lists/<list_name>/config.db
>
> On our system, though, all I find is:
>
> mailman$ ls
> Mailman/ archive/ bin/ cgi-bin/ cron/ icons/ mail/ messages/
> pythonlib/ scripts/ templates/ tests/
>
> so no "lists" diretory at all. Obviously that's for a very old version
> of mailman We have:
> Using Mailman version: 2.1.9
Mark may have more detailed information on this, more specific to your
version, but here's what I can tell you from many years as a Mailman
user.
With regard to "config.db", I believe this is now a pickled file called
config.pck, and the MM file hierarchy has been split up so that the
"lists" directory is now generally in a separate tree independent of
~mailman. In a standard MM installation, this is /var/lib/mailman.
My approach to this problem would be to locate the mailman logs and pull
the auto-unsubscriptions addresses from there. The following command
does this for MM 2.1.18:
grep "auto-unsubscribed" /full/path/to/logs/subscribe| grep <listname>|awk
'{printf($7"\n")}'
In MM 2.1.18, the log file is /var/lib/mailman/logs/subscribe. If the
log file format has changed over the last 9 releases, you may need to
change the parameter number for awk's printf command to something other
than $7, but there's a good chance that this will get you, or your
sysadmin, a bare list of email addresses unsubscribed during the time
period covered by the log file.
As I said, Mark will probably have more details on this stuff. He
usually does.
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