Issue:
How to transfer mailman mailing lists ?
Fix:
There are different mailman related binaries installed in a cPanel server at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/
folder. The binaries config_list , list_members and add_members can be used for this purpose.
First go to the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/ folder and find the name of the mailing list being dealt with under /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists folder , it is like :
listname_domainname
use the following command to get the list of subscribers in that list
list_members -o <outputfile> <listname>
get the configuration of the list using :
config_list -o <outputfile> <listname>
Now create the mailing list in the destination server and then import the list of users using :
add_members -r <outputfile> <listname>
and import the configuration of the previous mailing list using :
config_list -i <outputfile> <listname>
Here <outputfile> is the file to which either of list of members or configuration has been dumped using list_members or config_list
For all the binaries of mailman list of options can be found using:
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/<binaryname> –help
