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Mailman Migration

Here's the data I had to preserve when testing a mailman migration from one server to another on Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo

$ sudo su -l root

cd to mailman directory

$ cd /usr/lib/mailman/bin

get mailman list names (we're interested in wort and wort-off-topic)

$ ./list_lists

save lists configuration

$ ./config_list -o /tmp/wort.conf wort
$ ./config_list -o /tmp/wort-off-topic.conf wort-off-topic

save lists of members (both regular and digest)

$ ./list_members -o /tmp/wort-regular.txt -r wort
$ ./list_members -o /tmp/wort-digest.txt -d wort
$ ./list_members -o /tmp/wort-off-topic-regular.txt -r wort-off-topic
$ ./list_members -o /tmp/wort-off-topic-digest.txt -d wort-off-topic

cd to mailman archive directory

$ cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private

tar mailman archive files

$ tar czf /tmp/wort-archive.tgz wort
$ tar czf /tmp/wort-mbox-archive.tgz wort.mbox
$ tar czf /tmp/wort-off-topic-archive.tgz wort-off-topic
$ tar czf /tmp/wort-off-topic-mbox-archive.tgz wort-off-topic.mbox
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