Michael Sullivan wrote: >About a month ago I had a year-old version of mailman running on my >Fedora Core 1 mail server. FC1 installed mailman in /var/mailman, which >I added to my daily backup schedule. <snip> >Is it possible to obtain the subscriber list without >access to the old mailman interface?
It is /var/mailman/lists/<listname>/config.pck if the old version is 2.1.x or /var/mailman/lists/<listname>/config.db if older. If it is config.pck, just replace the config.pck for the newly created list with the one from the backup. This should restore subscribers, list configuration, subscriber options, etc. from the old list configuration. If the old file is a config.db, you would need to restore the old config.db to the new lists/<listname>/ directory and also remove any existing config.pck and config.pck.last files from that directory. Mailman should then be able to update the list configuration and store it as a pickle in config.pck, but there may be problems with this due to (as I understand it) the format of a Python marshal (the config.db file) not being constant across Python versions. I.e. Mailman will be able to convert it iff the Python on the new system can read it. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
