If I need to change the name of the Mailman machine, I can run
bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url
to update for each list the configuration parameters
mlist.web_page_url
mlist.host_name
I am not sure what to do with the archives, which have the current/old
machine name buried
Barry Finkel wrote:
I am not sure what to do with the archives, which have the current/old
machine name buried therein. Will the
bin/arch
utility accomplish that task? It is not clear from the help displayed
with the -h option.
bin/arch --wipe
will rebuild the entire archive with the
Mark Sapiro sent the message below at 10:26 4/24/2007:
It is a good idea to first run bin/cleanarch against the
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox files to make sure there
won't be any problems from unescaped lines beginning with From . You
can use the --dry-run option to check the
At 10:35 AM -0700 4/24/07, Dragon wrote:
I am curious about this... if the mbox file in question was produced
entirely by the stock pipermail archiving functionality of Mailman,
is this step really necessary?
The .../listname.mbox/listname.mbox files are the raw 7th edition
mbox-format
Dragon wrote:
I am curious about this... if the mbox file in question was produced
entirely by the stock pipermail archiving functionality of Mailman,
is this step really necessary?
It depends on how old the archives are. Current Mailman relies on the
email library to escape From lines in
