account migration ?s (domains and mailman)

[bdominick]

I'd assume other utilities in there will deal specifically with settings and the like.

Cool, I'll spend some time reviewing those utils.

There is no way to test Mailman AFAIK before the site resolves I'd imagine you would get a lot of bounces but then I have never tried it.

It's a one-way list, so the only incoming mail is stuff we don't want. What I was most concerned about is there are several email aliases related to the list, which I don't quite understand. I recall from my previous linux experience (in the '90s) that we had to manually set up email aliases in an alias for ListServ lists when we did something like this with them. MailMan sends from a SENDER: address of list_name-bounces@domain.com. I have no alias for that set up, but I don't see one on the client's current Plesk, either. The REPLY-TO: address I have set up, so maybe that's all that matters. I was just worried that there was exim-related stuff that might be missing in terms of handling addresses or whatever, if all I was doing was copying list config files from his mailman path to mine. I'll look and see what others have to say about that.

Thanks again for all your thoughtful input. It's been quite helpful and reassuring.

[bdominick]

Okay, it looks like my suspicion about external settings may have been correct. I found this resource about using MailMan via cPanel:
Mailman FAQ Entry

It concludes:

All of this mumbo-jumbo is why you can't create lists in the normal way if you're using cpanel, either via the command line or via the Mailman interface. That's OK, use the Cpanel -> Mail -> Mailing Lists -> Create New List and it'll handle everything for you, including making the aliases entries for your list and all that good stuff.

So I think I'll create the list in cPanel then copy the list's own directory over again from the old server, that way any external settings will be put in place during setup and the list's config settings (and addresses!) will overwrite the defaults. Hopefully. I'll report how that goes...