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[BJ Walraven <address@concealed>]

I think you're looking for the upgrading steps when moving to another server, 
here:

https://www.sympa.org/manual/upgrading#moving_to_another_server

Specifically, it appears you're missing:

- the /home/sympa/list_data directory that contains list config;
- the directory that contains the spools;

Although you'll want to make sure you do all the steps.

That being said, I haven't upgraded from that far back, so I'm not sure if a 
move from 4.0 to 6.x will be successful...

Thanks, 

BJ Walraven 
Messaging and Collaboration Systems Administrator 
Eastern Michigan University - Division of IT 
address@concealed 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela" <address@concealed>
To: address@concealed
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:08:48 AM
Subject: [sympa-users] Updating Sympa, do I need to become an expert?

I have a couple of old Sympa 4.0.a1 installations that desperately need
upgrading, with about a hundred lists each. I've tried following the
installation instructions for the new Sympa versions and was able to
create a blank working installation.

However, I found that updating (since I really don't want to GUI in all the
information for the mailing lists) seems to be a quite a lot trickier affair.

I tried restoring a full dump of the old database and then running the update
script on it, before I realized that (at least on the older Sympa), the actual
mailing lists do not seem to be a part of this database. So, where are they,
and why?

I'm sure all this is documented somewhere, but I haven't been able to figure
out where. Unfortunately, I am really too lazy to become an expert on the
internal workings of Sympa, but is it inevitable?

-- 
address@concealed (Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela)