Applicable to:
- Plesk for Linux
Symptoms
Advanced settings of mailing lists and Mailman archives are not transferred by Plesk Migrator.
Cause
Migration & Transfer Manager transfers only basic settings of mailing lists: list administrator, subscribers. Mailing list archives and other settings are not transferred, since Plesk cannot manage them.
Resolution
It is possible to transfer configuration of mailing list using Mailman's native utilities. Below example shows how to transfer settings of maillist maillist1 from one server to another:
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On a source server, save mailing list configuration into file:
# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o maillist1.conf maillist1
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Transfer maillist1.conf to a destination server, where domain with mailing list has already been migrated and restore configuration:
# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i maillist1.conf maillist1
If you want Plesk Migrator to transfer Mailman archives, we suggest to vote for this functionality on Plesk UserVoice.
Comments
1 comment
Do you need to create a new (empty) mailing list on the destination server prior to importing the configuration data?
I’m asking this because when my ISP migrated my domains using the Plesk Migrator tool, my mailing lists were not recreated on the new server. Even though you mention above that the “Migration & Transfer Manager transfers only basic settings of mailing lists: list administrator, subscribers.” … even these settings were not transferred.
Is there a way to manually transfer the mailing list members and their subscription status prior to importing the configuration data?
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