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["Adam Bernstein" <address@concealed>]

Hi Michelle.  Did you ever get this solved?  I may be about to do 
something similar, renaming the primary robot in fact, and I'm
wondering if I'm going to have problems and if you've already found
the solutions.

    adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:51 PM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: [sympa-users] Problems with list domains/naming
> 
> 
> I have an odd problem, and I'm trying to figure out how to solve it.
> 
> I migrated a large number of lists from mailman to sympa, but since 
> 1) they were not on the same machine, and 2) they are 
> mission-critical - I had to make sure they worked first, I did 
> something which I am now realizing might have been a big mistake: 
> created the lists on a different domain first, then intended to move 
> them.
> 
> So I first created a mydomain.org robot, moved the subscribers over, 
> and tested it, and it worked fine.I created an apache virtual host at 
> mydomain.net, which is the domain that actually hosts the list. First 
> thing I tried was to change the domain in the sympa admin interface 
> to mydomain.net. That was OK until the next time I re-started sympa - 
> the list dissappeared from the .org interface, and was not present on 
> the mydomain.net interface.
> 
> So I figured that I needed to actually move everything about the list 
> to a new robot, a mydomain.net robot.
> 
> So I did that for a test list - made a new robot, configured it, 
> moved the ~/expl/mydomain.org/listname directory to 
> ~/expl/mydomain.net/listname
> 
> And fixed all of the mail aliases.  And restarted sympa and apache, 
> etc... (I've gotten good at that)
> 
> Well, everything works like a charm - sort of. List mail goes through 
> fine, all the headers are correct, the web interface works fine, but, 
> when I moderate a message (on the right interface), I get an email 
> from the sympa system telling me that the list doesn't exist, and the 
> message that I tried to moderate goes into the ether.
> 
> Suggestions, help? There clearly is some missing little config thing 
> that I didn't get right.
> -- 
> .Michelle
> 
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