[Mailman-Users] migration from mailman 2 to 3

2022-01-31 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
One of the lists of which I am a co-moderator has been moved from mailman 2 to 3. While the administrator of the mailman site (not local) has directed us to https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html, I find there guides for system administrators and members but I do not find an equiva

[Mailman-Users] Migration to new server questions after having done research & testing ahead of time.

2021-03-17 Thread Bader, Robert (Bob)
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 &

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration missing held messages

2015-06-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/27/2015 01:19 PM, Peter Draksler wrote: > > Thanks Mark, running 'bin/update --force' updated the held requests > database; created request.pck and deleted request.db. I did run > 'bin/update' earlier but that only resulted in "No updates are necessary". > > To answer your question, I just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration missing held messages

2015-06-27 Thread Peter Draksler
On 15-06-27 11:59 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 06/26/2015 05:35 PM, Peter Draksler wrote: I did find the held messages are in /var/lib/mailman/data and migrated them but the admin GUI shows there are No Pending Requests. Doing a dumpdb on the migrated request.db file lists all the held messages b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration missing held messages

2015-06-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/26/2015 05:35 PM, Peter Draksler wrote: > > I did find the held messages are in /var/lib/mailman/data and migrated > them but the admin GUI shows there are No Pending Requests. > > Doing a dumpdb on the migrated request.db file lists all the held > messages but they're not in the request.pc

[Mailman-Users] Migration missing held messages

2015-06-27 Thread Peter Draksler
Hello, I've been tasked with migrating an old Mailman 2.0.8 install on an old Solaris 8 server to RHEL running Mailman 2.1.12. Everything was going quite smoothly and thought I was almost ready to proceed with the migration in production but held messages are missing in migrated lists. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-11 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi Mark, As usual you set me on the right path. Thanks. On 1/11/2015 1:06 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 01/08/2015 04:35 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> I do have the patch files, but I question if they are directly >> compatible with this version so I haven't tried that yet. > > Usually when applyin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 01/08/2015 04:35 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > I do have the patch files, but I question if they are directly > compatible with this version so I haven't tried that yet. Usually when applying patches from a prior version, there are at most only minor line number offsets. Occasionally there are m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-08 Thread Dennis Putnam
On 1/8/2015 7:06 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 01/08/2015 03:23 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> However, >> the only step I did not do yet is the URL change (I am testing a >> kickstart file) so my last problem may be due to that but I am thinking >> not. When I access the listinfo, no lists are publis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 01/08/2015 03:23 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > However, > the only step I did not do yet is the URL change (I am testing a > kickstart file) so my last problem may be due to that but I am thinking > not. When I access the listinfo, no lists are published but I can see > them in /var/lib/mailman/li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-08 Thread Dennis Putnam
On 1/7/2015 10:18 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 01/07/2015 06:44 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> I am trying to migrate mailman from CentOS 6 (32 bit) to CentOS 7 (64 >> bit) and have run into a problem. I am having problems with the web >> pages. They all get a permissions denied error and the log shows

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 01/07/2015 06:44 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > I am trying to migrate mailman from CentOS 6 (32 bit) to CentOS 7 (64 > bit) and have run into a problem. I am having problems with the web > pages. They all get a permissions denied error and the log shows: > > [Wed Jan 07 21:37:50.331181 2015] [auth

[Mailman-Users] Migration Problem

2015-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
I am trying to migrate mailman from CentOS 6 (32 bit) to CentOS 7 (64 bit) and have run into a problem. I am having problems with the web pages. They all get a permissions denied error and the log shows: [Wed Jan 07 21:37:50.331181 2015] [authz_core:error] [pid 5012] [client ::1:60272] AH01630: cl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-16 Thread David
see below On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/16/2013 06:39 PM, David wrote: > > > > Here's what the sysadmin ended up doing. > > > > First, he added our domain in postfix mydestination but it didn't help > > so he did these steps: > > > > 1) Added our domain in relay_dom

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/16/2013 06:39 PM, David wrote: > > Here's what the sysadmin ended up doing. > > First, he added our domain in postfix mydestination but it didn't help > so he did these steps: > > 1) Added our domain in relay_domains > > 2) Added the following in in master.cf > > mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-16 Thread David
see below On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/08/2013 01:29 PM, David wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > > If the mail server on the new box thinks list domains are in its > local > > delivery space (mydestination in Postfix), you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread David
Yes, you are correct. Thanks cat /etc/opendkim/TrustedHosts 127.0.0.1 localhost [...] On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/08/2013 04:34 PM, David wrote: > > > > Therefore, opendkim won't work now. And if I go fiddling with config > > files for testing (and changing to a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/08/2013 04:34 PM, David wrote: > > Therefore, opendkim won't work now. And if I go fiddling with config > files for testing (and changing to a temporary IP address, for example), > then I increase the risk that the server won't work after I swap IP > addresses and go live. The mail you are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread David
I am beginning to wonder if it is even possible to test Mailman before going live. With opendkim, the TrustedHosts file reflects the IP address and domain name the server will have after it is live (after I swap IP addresses). Therefore, opendkim won't work now. And if I go fiddling with config fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread David
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > > > So far all I did was: > > 1. create a ~/.mailrc file with contents: > > > > set smtp=localhost > > > If that tells mailx to send via smtp to localhost, that's good. > > > > 2. edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and change mydest

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/08/2013 01:29 PM, David wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > If the mail server on the new box thinks list domains are in its local > delivery space (mydestination in Postfix), you can just send mail from > an MUA on the local box configured to delive

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-08 Thread David
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/04/2013 11:58 AM, David wrote: > > If the mail server on the new box thinks list domains are in its local > delivery space (mydestination in Postfix), you can just send mail from > an MUA on the local box configured to deliver via SMTP t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/04/2013 11:58 AM, David wrote: > > Our sysadmin has the new Debian server set up, Mailman is installed and our > lists are copied over. This new server does not yet have our domain name or > IP address. We want to test the new setup before making those changes. > > I would appreciate some r

[Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David writes: > If anyone has or can come up with an itemized, file-by-file, > checklist, There's not going to be anything like that. These things differ from OS to OS and from site to site. I can tell you that aside from standard Mailman code, docs, and website data, Debian's mailman package

[Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-04 Thread David
Hi. Well, Mailman and Linode have been very trouble-free for the last year (or more). It's been great! We are making some changes although we are sticking with Mailman and Linode. We are moving to a new physical server (and new OS -- Debian). Our hostname and domain name are not changing. (In fact,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration of old debian woody mailman server

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 8/23/2012 7:20 PM, Peter Merritt wrote: > I have to migrate a dead mailman server running on debian woody to a > new Ubuntu server. The drive failed and I was able to image the drive > to a new drive but mailman will not run, seems that their is > significant problems with the current mailman in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration of old debian woody mailman server

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Peter Merritt wrote: >I have to migrate a dead mailman server running on debian woody to a new >Ubuntu server. The drive failed and I was able to image the drive to >a new >drive but mailman will not run, seems that their is significant problems with >the current mailman installation. All the c

[Mailman-Users] Migration of old debian woody mailman server

2012-08-24 Thread Peter Merritt
I have to migrate a dead mailman server running on debian woody to a new Ubuntu server. The drive failed and I was able to image the drive to a new drive but mailman will not run, seems that their is significant problems with the current mailman installation. All the commands seem die with pytho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-12 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks again. I did not, I had to boot anyway for other reasons and I thought that would be sufficient. Obviously not. In any case I had to run check_perms a couple of times but it seems to be working OK now. On 5/12/2012 9:53 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Dennis Putnam wrote: >> Ah! I took your comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: > >Ah! I took your command literally. So the problem is that my mm_cfg.py >seems to not be working. The resulting URL has the local FQDN not what I >specified. Here is my mm_cfg.py (sanitized): Did you run fix_url AFTER editing mm_cfg.py? If so, what is the exact command you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-12 Thread Dennis Putnam
Ah! I took your command literally. So the problem is that my mm_cfg.py seems to not be working. The resulting URL has the local FQDN not what I specified. Here is my mm_cfg.py (sanitized): # -*- python -*- # Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread David
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Dennis Putnam wrote: > > > >Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, 'dumpdb' is not installed and I > >cannot find a package that contains it. > > > It's part of Mailman. it's in Mailman's bin/ directory, not in /bin or > /usr/bin, but /usr/lib/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: > >Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, 'dumpdb' is not installed and I >cannot find a package that contains it. It's part of Mailman. it's in Mailman's bin/ directory, not in /bin or /usr/bin, but /usr/lib/mailman/bin or somewhere like that. -- Mark Sapiro The high

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, 'dumpdb' is not installed and I cannot find a package that contains it. On 5/11/2012 2:55 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> I am having trouble with the listinfo page saying there are no publicly >> advertised lists. I ran 'withlist' and the ou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: >I am having trouble with the listinfo page saying there are no publicly >advertised lists. I ran 'withlist' and the output appeared normal. >Everything else seems to be working other than managing lists via the >web pages. See the FAQ at . If t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread David
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > Hi David, > > Looks right to me. > > drwxrwsr-x. 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 9 09:36 . > drwxrwsr-x. 4 mailman mailman 4096 May 9 08:21 .. > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mailman mailman 44 May 9 09:36 cufsalumni -> > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi David, Looks right to me. drwxrwsr-x. 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 9 09:36 . drwxrwsr-x. 4 mailman mailman 4096 May 9 08:21 .. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mailman mailman 44 May 9 09:36 cufsalumni -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/cufsalumni lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mailman mailman 39 May 9 09:36 dapmm -> /va

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread David
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > After following the instructions for migrating mailman to a new server > ( > http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+move+a+list+to+a+different+server-Mailman+installation. > ), > I am having trouble with the listinfo page saying there ar

[Mailman-Users] Migration Problem - No Publicly Advertised Lists

2012-05-11 Thread Dennis Putnam
After following the instructions for migrating mailman to a new server (http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+move+a+list+to+a+different+server-Mailman+installation.), I am having trouble with the listinfo page saying there are no publicly advertised lists. I ran 'withlist' and the output appea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new server

2011-06-16 Thread Brian Carpenter
On 6/16/2011 11:35 AM, William Ashworth wrote: Currently, a client of mine has a mailman list running since 2006 on a server with a company they no longer do business with. We're wanting to consolidate resources for their organization and migrate them to a cPanel web host that supports mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new server

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/16/2011 8:35 AM, William Ashworth wrote: > > Currently, a client of mine has a mailman list running since 2006 on > a server with a company they no longer do business with. We're > wanting to consolidate resources for their organization and migrate > them to a cPanel web host that supports mai

[Mailman-Users] Migration to new server

2011-06-16 Thread William Ashworth
Currently, a client of mine has a mailman list running since 2006 on a server with a company they no longer do business with. We're wanting to consolidate resources for their organization and migrate them to a cPanel web host that supports mailman. Is there any concern about mailman versions be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration of Mailman from Slackware to RHEL

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
dwayne.mil...@nc4.us wrote: >I'm forced to migrate an instance of Mailman (v2.1.8) from a Slackware >distro (Mailman was locally compiled) to a RHEL6 with Mailman (v2.1.12) >installed via RPM. The directory structures for Mailman on these two >servers are completely different. The Slackware s

[Mailman-Users] Migration of Mailman from Slackware to RHEL

2011-02-10 Thread Dwayne . Miller
I'm forced to migrate an instance of Mailman (v2.1.8) from a Slackware distro (Mailman was locally compiled) to a RHEL6 with Mailman (v2.1.12) installed via RPM. The directory structures for Mailman on these two servers are completely different. The Slackware system seems to have all of Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Mailman

2009-11-09 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Pavlo Lyovkin : > Hello! > I am an IT-assistant and got the task to find some software to make possible > the migration of our mailing lists from MailMan on freeBSD to Microsoft > operating system. Do you know such software? ??? Simply export the list members and reimport them. -- Ralf Hildebra

[Mailman-Users] Migration from Mailman

2009-11-09 Thread Pavlo Lyovkin
Hello! I am an IT-assistant and got the task to find some software to make possible the migration of our mailing lists from MailMan on freeBSD to Microsoft operating system. Do you know such software? Thanks a lot... -- Pavlo Lyovkin IT Assistant IREX-Ukraine -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new server, new domain name

2009-06-13 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:33:11AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > Can anybody point me to a document or explain to me what is necessary to > complete these steps? I am in the same position and hope somebody can point to a link to a step by step tutorial or something like that. -- Zheng

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new server, new domain name

2009-06-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Duane Winner wrote: > >Can anybody point me to a document or explain to me what is necessary to >complete these steps? > >We have a mailman server hosted on a FreeBSD box and need to migrate it an >Ubuntu box and change domain names on all the lists. > >We have several dozen lists, all under the "f

[Mailman-Users] Migration to new server, new domain name

2009-06-12 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Can anybody point me to a document or explain to me what is necessary to complete these steps? We have a mailman server hosted on a FreeBSD box and need to migrate it an Ubuntu box and change domain names on all the lists. We have several dozen lists, all under the "foo.org" domain. We ne

Re: [Mailman-Users] migration from mailman 2.1.5 and fc2 to 2.1.9 and Centos

2006-11-14 Thread Dragon
Ted Targosz sent the message below at 23:44 11/13/2006: >Seems like i'm not the only one wanting to migrate from 2.1.5... but I >made the mistake of deploying fedora core 2 with mailman 2.1.5 (RPM) as >a production system... now i can see i need to migrate to Centos 4 for >longer term stability. >

[Mailman-Users] migration from mailman 2.1.5 and fc2 to 2.1.9 and Centos

2006-11-13 Thread Ted Targosz
Seems like i'm not the only one wanting to migrate from 2.1.5... but I made the mistake of deploying fedora core 2 with mailman 2.1.5 (RPM) as a production system... now i can see i need to migrate to Centos 4 for longer term stability. I recall reading somewhere that someone did this and they w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration of mailinglist

2006-10-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Thomas Mladek wrote: > >I want to migrate a lot of lists from majordomo to mailman. >Searching the web i found a perl script that worked for mailman 2.0 > >http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/mailman-117/mailman/contrib/majordomo2mailman.pl > >Is there any script working for the up

[Mailman-Users] Migration of mailinglist

2006-10-09 Thread Thomas Mladek
Hi, I want to migrate a lot of lists from majordomo to mailman. Searching the web i found a perl script that worked for mailman 2.0 http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/mailman-117/mailman/contrib/majordomo2mailman.pl Is there any script working for the uptodate version of mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] migration of mailing list to mailman?

2006-01-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jana Nguyen wrote: > >I have .archive files of mailing lists that I need to migrate over to >mailman. Where do I copy these >.archive files on to mailman, where does it locate? I need to test out >if our existing mailing list work on mailman. If these '.archive' files are in *nix mbox format,

[Mailman-Users] migration of mailing list to mailman?

2006-01-12 Thread Jana Nguyen
Hi there, I have .archive files of mailing lists that I need to migrate over to mailman. Where do I copy these .archive files on to mailman, where does it locate? I need to test out if our existing mailing list work on mailman. Thanks, Jana

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration Help

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Pati Moss wrote: >I have mailman version 2.1.5-33 installed on a RedHat Linux ES4.0 >server. I now need to migrate my lists and archives from an NT4 server >running L-Soft Listserv 1.8e over to my mailman installation. > >I have been searching the site and archives but am not finding >documentatio

[Mailman-Users] Migration Help

2005-12-02 Thread Moss, Patricia
I have mailman version 2.1.5-33 installed on a RedHat Linux ES4.0 server. I now need to migrate my lists and archives from an NT4 server running L-Soft Listserv 1.8e over to my mailman installation. I have been searching the site and archives but am not finding documentation that can assist me. C

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-07 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/6/05 10:06 AM, "Carfield Yim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thx for the information, however I get problem from the starting... > where can I download the binary of mailman? I just have a mac mini which > don't come with make and gcc. Besides, as I don't have other software > need to compile,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-06 Thread Carfield Yim
>I'm running Mailman on OSX 10.2.8. The setup was straightforward >Installation varies depending on which version of OSX you're running, >and your preferred MTA. For some reason, a lot of versions of OSX >come with sendmail preinstalled while others have postfix or nothing. > >The Mailman docume

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-05 Thread Larry Stone
On 6/5/05 3:41 PM, Heather Madrone at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running Mailman on OSX 10.2.8. The setup was straightforward > Installation varies depending on which version of OSX you're running, > and your preferred MTA. For some reason, a lot of versions of OSX > come with sendmail prein

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-05 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/5/05 1:41 PM, "Heather Madrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Mailman on OSX 10.2.8. The setup was straightforward > Installation varies depending on which version of OSX you're running, > and your preferred MTA. For some reason, a lot of versions of OSX > come with sendmail prei

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-05 Thread Heather Madrone
At 2:08 AM +0800 6/6/05, Carfield Yim wrote: >I need to do the migration from Linux to MacOSX, can anyone point me to >some document of how to do this? I'm running Mailman on OSX 10.2.8. The setup was straightforward Installation varies depending on which version of OSX you're running, and your p

[Mailman-Users] Migration from Linux to MacOSX

2005-06-05 Thread Carfield Yim
I need to do the migration from Linux to MacOSX, can anyone point me to some document of how to do this? -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] migration mailman lists, dealing with paths in config.db

2005-04-21 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 21, 2005, at 16:20, Geoff Crompton wrote: Is there an easy way of updating the paths in the config.db file? I have tried the config_list program, it fails when using the -i option, do to the difference in paths! Preferably a scripty way, as there are quite a few lists to move. What is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] migration mailman lists, dealing with paths in config.db

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Crompton wrote: >I'm trying to migrate our install of mailman on an old redhat server to >a shiny old debian server. > >Luckily both are running 2.0.11. Luckier still if the new server had a 2.1.x version because then you could use bin/fix_url.py (a withlist script) to fix the problem belo

[Mailman-Users] migration mailman lists, dealing with paths in config.db

2005-04-21 Thread Geoff Crompton
I'm trying to migrate our install of mailman on an old redhat server to a shiny old debian server. Luckily both are running 2.0.11. I've found that the lists/mylist/config.db file contains the paths to the archives. On the debian install the paths are a different location, so a variety of comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from RH 7.3, Mailman 2.0.13-1 to SUSE ES 9, Mailman2.1.4-83.10

2005-02-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dave Warchol wrote: >Postfix is my MTA. Any thoughts about how I might do this would be >greatly appreciated. See >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py article 3.4 -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabette

[Mailman-Users] Migration from RH 7.3, Mailman 2.0.13-1 to SUSE ES 9, Mailman 2.1.4-83.10

2005-02-07 Thread Dave Warchol
Postfix is my MTA. Any thoughts about how I might do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much, Dave -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration

2004-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brian York wrote: > >Could i put the config.pck file from a list that i have created with the >settings that I want for a open list and paste it over the config.pck list >after it has been created or is there a way to use some kind of templates >with mailman. > Use $prefix/mailman/bin/config_

[Mailman-Users] Migration

2004-07-14 Thread Brian York
I am doing a migration from PMDF listservs running on openVMS. We have four types of lists (open, open-moderated, closed, closed-moderated). I have several hundred lists to move from that to mailman. Any ideas on creating lists automatically and changing settings so they fit into one of the four

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server - issues

2004-06-28 Thread Josh Harding
> > That's not the process I would use, but I don't see where it should > have been a problem. Unless somehow bad characters got inserted into > those addresses and caused them to bounce. > > What did the bounces say? What do you see in your MTA log about these > addresses? > That's the interestin

[Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server - issues

2004-06-28 Thread Josh Harding
Hello, I recently migrated mailman from our catch-all server to a dedicated listserv server. The process I used was as follows: 1.) Create lists on new server based on list_lists on old server 1.) Stop mail on old server (Postfix stop) and new server 2.) Insert temporary redirect away from web int

[Mailman-Users] Migration Help

2003-03-27 Thread irix
Hi, I need some help migrating our mailing lists. I've looked on list.org, and searched google, and I've yet to find anyone who's done what I'm doing. Basically, we have our lists running on a Linux box with mailman 2.0.13. We're moving it to Solaris, using mailman 2.0.13. I obviously can't jus

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo,MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-20 Thread Arlen . P . Walker
>[1] I want most of my archives to be private. The way I'm currently > doing this with MHonarc is setting up a user in my web server > (Netscape Enterprise) and broadcasting the password to the list. > I prefer the use Mailman's user authentication. > >[2] I like the way Pipermail auto

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo,MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-20 Thread Phillip L. Harbison
Arlen Walker wrote: > Ok, this may be too elementary, but you *do* realize MHonarc works > perfectly well with Mailman, don't you? I saw a reference to external archivers in the documentation, but I have not pursued that option. > So the reason you want to switch over to Pipermail is.? There

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-19 Thread John Buttery
* Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-18 15:58:37 -0500]: > (though MHonArch may one day be the archiver that is included with > Mailman...) For the record, I second that hope... :) -- John Buttery

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Mick
Has anyone ever figured out how to get MHonArc to painlessly do the daily/monthly/weekly stuff that Pipermail does (without standing on their hands creating custom cron stuff)? That's the huge advantage Pipermail had over anything else I could find a year ago. Jon Carnes wrote: +1 on that! S

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-18 Thread Jon Carnes
+1 on that! Stick with MHonArc as your archive agent. The only advantage of Pipermail over MHonArc is that it comes with Mailman. MHonArch has many superior features that will probably never make it into Pipermail (though MHonArch may one day be the archiver that is included with Mailman...) On

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-18 Thread Arlen . P . Walker
>I'm migrating from Majordomo and MHonArc to Mailman. Is there >an easy way to convert MHonArc archives to Pipermail? Ok, this may be too elementary, but you *do* realize MHonarc works perfectly well with Mailman, don't you? So the reason you want to switch over to Pipermail is.? Have fun, A

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc, Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-18 Thread Richard Barrett
At 18:26 18/11/2002, Phillip L. Harbison wrote: I'm migrating from Majordomo and MHonArc to Mailman. Is there an easy way to convert MHonArc archives to Pipermail? I have found a perl script (mhn2mbox) that will convert MHonARC HTML files back to UNIX mailbox format, but I was hoping for a more

[Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-18 Thread Phillip L. Harbison
I'm migrating from Majordomo and MHonArc to Mailman. Is there an easy way to convert MHonArc archives to Pipermail? I have found a perl script (mhn2mbox) that will convert MHonARC HTML files back to UNIX mailbox format, but I was hoping for a more direct approach. Is there a web interface for se

[Mailman-Users] Migration scripting

2002-08-02 Thread Tim Crouch
Anyone who can help - We have a "home grown" mailing list setup right now and are purchasing new hardware and moving to Mailman. I need to migrate the current lists to the new environment. I have the following data files (all are plain text, colon-delimited, flat files) on the current s

RE: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new host new version

2002-08-01 Thread Fong, Anna
California Data Exchange Center > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf >Of Brian Vandruff > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new host new version >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new host new version

2002-08-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:17:31 -0500 (CDT) Brian Vandruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to migrate an existing Mailman install to a new machine running > a newer version of Mailman. Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(

[Mailman-Users] Migration to new host new version

2002-08-01 Thread Brian Vandruff
I need to migrate an existing Mailman install to a new machine running a newer version of Mailman. here are the details: OLD SERVER OS Solaris 7 Mailman version 2.0beta2 MailmanDir /usr/local/mailman NEW SERVER == OS Redhat 7.2 Mailman Version 2.0.11-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from YahooGroups

2002-05-30 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:01 pm, Joe Stewart wrote: > Googled: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html > > I've used this to move a few lists OK. > Joe, Excellent utility! As I write this, it is happily downloading all 634 messages from one of my groups. I had it up and running in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from YahooGroups

2002-05-30 Thread Joe Stewart
Googled: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html I've used this to move a few lists OK. good luck, Joe -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://

[Mailman-Users] Migration from YahooGroups

2002-05-30 Thread Scott Courtney
Hi, all My previous query to the list is still pending, but on the assumption that we, or I, will find the answer, I'm preparing the groundwork for moving several lists that I run from YahooGroups to Mailman. I sent a request to YG's tech support asking how to download the archives as a single f

[Mailman-Users] Migration woes. Linux to Solaris.

2002-03-16 Thread Martin Schmitt
Hi everyone! I've migrated a list server (fortunately running only one list) from Debian Potato to Solaris 8. On Debian I've used the provided binary packages, on Solaris I compiled everything on my own: The two main differences between both installations are: Mailman's CGI root (ScriptAlias) o

[Mailman-Users] migration of mailing lists

2002-01-25 Thread Bert De Vuyst
Hello, I would like to migrate some mailman mailing lists to a new computer. The old computer is running mailman 1.1, the new one runs mailman 2.0.8. Does mailman provide a conversion script? What 's the best way to migrate the mailinglists? Thanks for your help, Bert. --

[Mailman-Users] Migration of Mailman

2001-07-17 Thread Marc Bitner
I am wanting to migrate Mailman from one Linux box to another Linux box.  Is there anything that I will need to know about before beginning this project?? Info: Old Linux box (Red Hat 6.2 - 200 MHz), New Linux box (Red Hat 7.1 - 550 MHz).  I have Mailman installed on both computers (same versions

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Majordomo to Mailman ?

2001-03-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:44:25AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Philippe Rodriguez wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm actually testing Mailman, maybe to replace Majordomo on my server. > > My questions are the following : > > - will Mailman be able to man

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration from Majordomo to Mailman ?

2001-03-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Philippe Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm actually testing Mailman, maybe to replace Majordomo on my server. > My questions are the following : > - will Mailman be able to manage 700 or more mailing lists ? (is it > reasonable ?) Sourceforge has

[Mailman-Users] Migration from Majordomo to Mailman ?

2001-03-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hello, I'm actually testing Mailman, maybe to replace Majordomo on my server. My questions are the following : - will Mailman be able to manage 700 or more mailing lists ? (is it reasonable ?) - how can I migrate all my lists (I can write scripts, but I won't migrate more than 700 list