This is old and obsolete and should be moved to a private section.

Migrating a Mailman Mailing List Betweenbbcrandmailman

1. On bbcr

1. Login to bbcr, then suw to root
2. Start the bash shell using the bash command
3. Set the $PATH to include mailman's bin directory

export PATH=/var/mailman-2.0.8ece/distribution/bin:$PATH

1. Go to a convenient location and export user list

cd /u/trg list_members -o <list_name>_reg -r -p <list_name> list_members -o <list_name>_dig -d -p <list_name>

1. tar the list's archives. Ther are 2 directories that need to be tar-ed: and .mbox.

cd /var/mailman-2.0.8ece/distribution/archives/private tar cvf <list_name>.tar <list_name>*

1. Set proper permissions on the exported user lists and tar-ed archive

chown trg <list_name>*

1. Get the list's custom listinfo.html page, if it exists

cd /var/mailman-2.0.8ece/distribution/lists/<list_name> cat listinfo.html

1. Get the list's administrators using the config_list command

config_list -o - <list_name> | grep admin

2. On mailman

1. Login to mailmanand sudo -i to enter a root shell

$ sudo -s

1. Setup the PATH to include the mailman bin directory

export PATH=/var/mailman/bin:$PATH

1. Go to your home folder and scp the exported files to mailman

cd ~ scp trg@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca:/u/trg/<list_name>* .

1. Create the list with the same name as on bbcr using the create_list.sh script

create_list.sh <list_name> <admin_email@host>

1. Look in your mail box for an email from mailman-admin@mailman.uwaterloo.ca to get your list's admin password.
2. Restore the list of administrators.
   1. Login with the password you just received into the administration page of the list at https://mailman.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/ifip_nm.
   2. Add the administrators (the ones you dumped on bbcr using config_list) separated by a newline in the appropriate field.
3. Import the new list of members

add_members -r <list_name>_reg <list_name> add_members -d <list_name>_dig <list_name>

1. Restore the archives
   1. On mailman, confirm the existence of 2 directories: /var/mailman/archive/private/ and /var/mailman/archive/private/.mbox. Note that the directories are set root:mailman
   2. Expand the archived archives to somewhere convenient

cd somewhere_convenient tar xvf <list_name>.tar

cd <list_name> cp -r * /var/mailman/archive/private/<list_name> cd ../<list_name>.mbox cp -r * /var/mailman/archive/private/<list_name>.mbox