On 06/05/2014 04:27 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > I'm ready for the next step, which is to > move an entire configuration and mail spool from an old Debian > 5+Mailman 2.1.11 server. > > I imagine the spool (/var) files can just be tar'd and moved en masse.
Yes and no. You do not want to move the locks/, logs/ or qfiles/ directories and spam/ is probably non-existent or empty. It's probably not necessary to move anything from data/ but that reqwuires some thought. > But what about mailman configuration files--mailing list info, that > sort of thing? What should be moved, what should be re-created, etc.? See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/2oA9> You do want to move the lists/ directory in its entirety except maybe the lists/mailman/ site list if you have already set that up on the new server. That moves list configs, membership, etc. If host/domain names are changing, you will need to run fix_url; see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/mIA9>. You also maybe need to run bin/genaliases if your MTA uses mailman generated aliases and you didn't move them from data/ Archives can be an issue. You can move the entire archives/private/ directory and that should be OK, but people sometimes run into permissions issues following that. It is best not to move archives/public/, but if you do, make sure that you end up moving the symlinks and not their targets. archives/public/ contains only symlinks into archives/private and these will be created as appropriate by Mailman as lists are accessed. If host/domain names are changing, The cleanest process is to move only the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox files and rebuild the HTML archive with bin/arch for each list, but there are downsides to this. If some lists have scrub_nondigest = Yes, the scrubbed attachments will be lost in this process, and if there are unescaped "From " lines in messages that will cause problems too (see bin/cleanarch). -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
