Mark Sapiro wrote: >Jana Nguyen wrote: > > >>I need to migrate mailing list from majordomo to mailman. I didn't see >>any instructions to do this, what >>are the steps? >> >> > > >There is an old perl script, majordomo2mailman.pl, in the contrib >directory in the Mailman distribution that may or may not be helpful. > > To run this script the majordomo has to be setup on the same machine that is running mailman? When I tried to run this script on different machine that is running mailman it's looking for majordomo config location, error below. I just copied the majordomo mailing list over to mailman machine and run the script:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] contrib]# ./majordomo2mailman.pl /tmp/bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox/bcc-portal-dev.archive.0512.mbox can't open /var/lib/majordomo/lists//tmp/bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox/bcc-portal-dev.archive.0512.mbox.config > > > >>If I copy the mailing list from majordomo to mailman at the following >>location: >>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ >> >> > > >You need somehow to export the majordomo archive as a mbox format file >(a flat file with raw messages separated by lines that begin "From " >with email address and date), and then use Mailman's bin/arch tool to >build the archive from the mbox. > > To enable this to work, I found out that you need to have an existing mailman mailing list if not it can't find the "mylist": [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# ./bin/arch --wipe bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bcc-portal-dev.a rchive.mbox No such list "bcc-portal-dev.archive.mbox" ------------------------------------------------------ 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
