Mailing list archives and settings are not transferred by Plesk Migrator

Kuzma Ivanov

Updated December 14, 2025 04:42

Plesk for Linux kb: technical ext: migrator ABT: Group B

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Plesk for Linux

Symptoms

Advanced settings of mailing lists and Mailman archives are not transferred by Plesk Migrator.

Cause

Plesk Migrator transfers only basic settings of mailing lists: list administrator, subscribers. Mailing list archives and other settings are not transferred as Plesk does not manage them.

Resolution

It is possible to transfer configuration of mailing list(s) using Mailman's config_list utility.

Transferring configuration of one mailing list

Below example shows how to transfer the settings of the mailing list mail_list1 from a source server to destination:

Connect to the source Plesk server via SSH.
Save the mailing list configuration into the file mail_list1.conf:

# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o mail_list1.conf maillist1
Transfer mail_list1.conf to the destination server, where domain with mailing list has already been migrated, and restore the configuration:

# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i mail_list1.conf mail_list1

Transferring configuration of all mailing lists

Connect to the source Plesk server via SSH.
Create a folder for the configuration files and open it:

# mkdir /root/list_configs && cd /root/list_configs
Create configuration backups for all mailing lists:

# for i in $(ls /var/lib/mailman/lists/ |grep -v mailman); do /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o $i.conf $i;done
Connect to the destination Plesk server via SSH and create the same directory:

# mkdir /root/list_configs && cd /root/list_configs
Copy the files from the source Plesk server to the destination server.
Restore the mailing lists' configuration:

# for i in $(ls);do /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i $i `ls $i| cut -d. -f1` ;done