I need to migrate my instance of mailman to a new server. Centos6 is going out of support, so I need to migrate to a centos7 server. I have been searching the lists and looked at https://wiki.list.org/x/4030682 but still have some questions.
I am basically handed a new server that has Mailman & Apache installed. For moving over mailman it looks like I can just: * Have incoming mail held ****Our mail is scanned before it gets to the server, so I can have the mail held while I perform the migration. * Stop mailman service on new server * Copy (or rsync) /var/lib/mailman/ to new server this will cover …/data & …/archives & …/lists * chown -R root:mailman For /var/lib/mailman/ ******Current server has this owner & group ,one example I saw had nobody:mailman , not sure if that makes difference? * chmod -R a+rx,g+ws /var/lib/mailman/ * Copy (or rsync) /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to new server * run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass on new server ***** To setup new site password on the new server * Have the DNS & MX records to point to the new server IP. ******** I need to give the server a new IP but can keep the same domain name. * Startup mailman * Test initial access * Release incoming mail * Test again * Get a coffee or work on resume depending on how it goes 😊 Questions: * Am I missing anything? * Also old server is version 2.1.12 and new version is version 2.1.15. will that be an issue? Side notes: ****** I have tried this process to a test server and it looks good, except of course that the test server has a different DNS name and can’t send/receive mail. and when I connect to it I do not see any of my lists. I assume this because I am not accessing the test server via the same domain name as the old server... BUT I used the firefox add in LiveHosts (Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file). So when I hit the IP of the test server it sends the domain of the old mailman server, so I actually see my lists and archives to verify email lists and archives copied over….. Pretty snazzy ************* ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
