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- From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
- To: address@concealed
- Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Mass replace email addresses
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:24:37 +0200
On 7/27/20 4:16 PM, Colas Nahaboo wrote:
> When I had to do it, I opted for a simple approach:
> I did:
>
> * a global command line search / replace (sed...) in the config files,
> * I dumped the mysql database in text form (mysqldump --opt
> --skip-extended-insert --skip-dump-date)
> * I replaced the emails in the dump with the same commands as for the
> config files
> * I reloaded the modified dump
>
> Note that will not change the emails in the archives.
> Using search/replace in text files makes checking and debugging easier in
> my opinion.
>
> Colas.
My two cents on that:
* recent Sympa releases don't use owners in the list configuration files
anymore
* take a look at "Dump files" at
https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/customize/basics-list-config.html
The latter might be safer than manipulate database dumps :-).
Regards
Racke
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 12:41, Dick Visser <address@concealed
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for a way to do a mass search/replace of mail addresses in
> Sympa.
> We have a large number of mail addresses that need changing, most of
> them subscribers to lists, but also a number of owners.
>
> thx!
>
> --
> Dick Visser
> Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
> GÉANT
>
>
>
> --
> Colas Nahaboo - http://colas.nahaboo.net
--
Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
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[sympa-users] Mass replace email addresses,
Dick Visser, 07/27/2020
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Re: [sympa-users] Mass replace email addresses,
Colas Nahaboo, 07/27/2020
- Re: [sympa-users] Mass replace email addresses, Stefan Hornburg (Racke), 07/27/2020
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Re: [sympa-users] Mass replace email addresses,
Colas Nahaboo, 07/27/2020
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