Re: moving lists

[Brent @ GreatCircle . COM (Brent Chapman)]

At 10:45 AM 7/6/95, Brian Hartsfield wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Mats Wichmann wrote:
>
>> Is there a graceful way to do this?  Certainly, mail to the list itself
>> in the form of <listname@oldhost.com> can just be forwarded in the
>> alias file on oldhost, but is there a way to deal with admin stuff
>> gracefully as well?  sub/unsub requests, who, etc., which are likely to
>> be occasionally sent to oldhost instead of newhost?  It would be nice
>> to do something other than reply that the list is unknown - like give a
>> canned reply that the list has moved to a new location.
>
>Just take each of the alises on the old server and change them to
>
>list:list@newhost
>list-request:list-request@newhost
>list-approval:list-approval@newhost
>
>and so on.  That would send all requests to newhost.

Only if the users are sending their requests to "list-request@oldhost", not
if they're sending them to "majordomo@oldhost", as many probably are.

You'd need to hack Majordomo itself to forward those messages pertaining to
the moved list to "majordomo@newhost".  But what do you do about
multi-command messages that include stuff relevant to both current lists
and moved lists?  It gets messy.

-Brent

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