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We have a GNU Mailman server running on some old hardware that is due to be retired soon. I have been trying to figure out where the list/archive data stored so I can just rsync it over to the new server when it comes in but I haven't had much luck. Does anyone know where this data is stored by default? Also, is there anything else I should be concerned about when making a move like this? I don't have much experience with Mailman so any help would be much appreciated.

James O'Gorman
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  • Which OS are you running this on, and are you using OS-supplied packages or was it installed manually? – James O'Gorman Oct 21 '12 at 17:54
  • Old server is running RHEL4 and mailman was installed via the Redhat supplied RPM. The exact package name is mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6. The new server would be running RHEL6 – Justin Oct 21 '12 at 18:04

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The files you want are located in /var/lib/mailman the directories you want to copy are

/var/lib/mailman/data
/var/lib/mailman/archives
/var/lib/mailman/lists

After you have migrated the server just run

check_perms -f

To fix the permissions

topdog
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  • I would add a somewhat obvious step of ensuring `mailman` is stopped on both hosts before copying the files. Also _do not_ rebuild the archives. It will change all the public links. – James O'Gorman Oct 21 '12 at 20:00
  • when I run check_perms -f it finds about 400 issues but says I need to run as root to fix. After elevating to root I run the command again but it won't actually fix the permissions, just find them. Any ideas? – Justin Oct 22 '12 at 14:39