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[Konstantin Lepikhov <address@concealed>]

Hi Scott!

On 01/22/2024, at 07:44:20 PM you wrote:

> I am working on getting an old mailman server migrated over to Sympa.  The 
> new server is a different server all together.  And all that I have found 
> related to the mailman2sympa migration scripts are for migration from 
> mailman to Sympa on the same server.  Consequently, all of the parameters 
> in the configs relate to having mailman and Sympa on one server.  I am 
> reaching out to the group to see if anyone can point me in the right 
> direction to do this migration in a more manual way.
> 
> I have my list of lists, my list of members, and my list of owners and 
> admins for all 100 lists that I need to move.  I have my original mailman 
> archives with the .mbox format copied to the new Sympa server.  I can come 
> up with a way to script importing the lists and member easily enough I 
> think.  If anyone has any scripts they've used for this I would be very 
> grateful to see those.
> 
> But what I am struggling with is how to get the archives pulled into the 
> new Sympa.  Can anyone help me understand how this could be done?  I do see 
> this list of scripts that came in with the migration script and I wonder if 
> I could use these with some tweaks:
> 
> dispatch_messages, loadsubscribers.pl, mm2s_admins,  mm2s_blacklist, 
> mm2s_info, mm2s_unpickle.py, getmailmanarchive, mboxsplit, mm2s_aliases, 
> mm2s_config, mm2s_subscribers, mm2s_users
> 
> Any advice or guidance would be very much appreciated.
I have an own version[1] and even created a MR[2] to sympa-contribs in the 
past with
update :)

1. https://github.com/LAKostis/mailman2sympa
2. https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa-contribs/pull/16

For migration configuration check conf/ directory with distro specifics
file locations and paths.

Then just run mailman2sympa.sh and it will convert your mm lists to sympa
lists with needed config in sympa directory. 

I don't remember all problems but most annoying one was the subscribers
list - mailman have subscribers per list but in sympa subscribers are
linked to domain.

-- 
WBR et al.