[Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman lists from one server to another

2020-11-21 Thread Tony Stocker
We are in the process of upgrading our mailing server with a new
machine. This system is also running an updated version of the
operating system (RHEL-8 vs RHEL-6.)

We have numerous Mailman mailing lists, along with their associated
configurations, and archives. Fortunately, the archives are located on
a networked file system, so we don't have to move those files.

However, I would like to be able to just "copy and paste", if you
will, the entire configuration from one server to the other so that we
don't have to reconfigure anything. Is this possible? If so, are there
any detailed instructions for it posted anywhere?

Thanks!

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[Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman Lists from One Server to Another

2020-10-29 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Greeting,

Is there a recommended a stable or reliable approach for migrating
Mailman lists from one server to another?  I have tried two methods
already and, in both cases, the resulting lists were buggy.  The source
lists are not live (i.e. old server/host is no longer accessible).
However, we copied all files/folders from the previous
/var/lib/mailman/ to a folder in our new server.  I guess the scenario
rules out Method-#1 described on
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20%28rename%29%20a%20list%3F

I also tried the steps illustrated on
https://debian-administration.org/article/567/Migrating_mailman_lists.
That gave me lots of errors pertaining to permissions despite running
'check_perms -f' (makes me wonder what the recommended
permissions/ownership for files in /var/lib/mailman/ would be).  In the
end, the lists were visible via the web interface but I couldn't log
into administration from there (I got an error page ... something about
Mailman being buggy).  Some other pages wouldn't open too.  I got
similar results after following
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg03127.html

Method #2 at
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20%28rename%29%20a%20list%3F
sounds appealing.  I tried the script but python2 was looking for a
path module. Is that script still supported?  In any case, I'd
appreciate any help I can get to bring our lists back online.

Regards
Onyeibo
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