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+This is specific to the migration from amber to the second system named bock.
+==== Mailman Installation and Configuration ====
+Lost search capability.  The code on amber was a heavily customized variant that added
+this, but was not available in a current Mailman release or Debian package.
+Problem with conversion of all mail to utf-8 in base64 encoding.
+This is due to changes in Mailman 2.1.21.  Amber was running 2.1.12.
+This forced complete removal of the footer added to postings.
+=== Software installation ===
+Not documented, probably just someone installing Debian package "mailman".
+=== Postfix Integration ===
+Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to add to current "alias_maps":
+<code>
+alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
+</code>
+=== Apache Integration ===
+This should have been done with the copy of the Apache configuration files.
+Copy the password files if not already done.
+=== Migration from old server ===
+Change archive ownership from "www-data" to "list", but only below "private".
+== Files to move to different locations ==
+The old locations were under "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.12/".
+There generally moved to the same subdirectory name, under "/var/lib/mailman/".
+Don't copy files that are part of the package, only those that
+are customized or status or archive:
+  * archives/
+  * lists/    - Config for each list
+  * data/     - Not specific to any list, only temporary?
+  * logs/     - Archive and keep for 6 months
+  * qfiles/   - Should all be empty.
+  * spam/     - Should delete if not in some database
+== Copying files on old system for transport to new ==
+Stop postfix and mailman processes.
+Check for pending actions.
+Copy the files listed above.
+== Installation of files on new system from old ==
+Unpack the files copied above.
+Change owner and group to "list".
+Move into final location.
+=== Software configuration ===
+Mostly copied from the old system.
+Edit "mm_cfg.py" to reflect different locations and other changes.
+Delete the footer from each list config file.
+Restart postfix and start mailman.
+For each list, use "check_perms" and "check_db" to find problems to fix.
+Delete htdig search stuff from each list's archive index HTML.
+Add aliases to SQL alias list for "test" and "testing",
+aliases for each list.
+Edit /etc/logrotate.d/mailman to:
+  * Increase weekly retention from 4 to 8 generations.
+  * Change the logs with daily rotation to weekly rotation.
+Delete all old pending actions on all lists.
+To allow mailman support tools to work with minimal modification and
+to make the standard location used in documentation work with the location
+used by Debian package for the mailman base directory:
+<code>ln -sv /var/lib/mailman /usr/local/mailman</code>
+=== Unrelated to server migration was the change to force https ===
+Edit "mm_cfg.py" and each list's config file to add the "s" to "http".
+=== Other changes ===
+Change "Reply-To:" on announce list.
+  * Change "reply_goes_to_list" from "0" to "2".
+  * Change "reply_to_address" from "" to "editor@sluug.org".
+  * Change "welcome_msg" from the obsolete text to "".
+Due to complaint of mailman being hung for three days, created script
+to monitor for queue files that have been present for more than 15 minutes.
+  * This is "/usr/local/bin/mailman_queue_check.sh".
+  * Executed twice a day by "/etc/cron.d/mailman-local".

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