[PLUG] Retrieving Mailman subscriber lists from backups

[Dan Young]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> Not a problem, but a solution.  I wish I could have saved
> an hour by finding this same solution via Google.  Maybe
> posting this will save someone else an hour.
>
> The important information:
>
>  The subscriber database for Mailman is stored in the file:
>  /var/lib/mailman/lists/[listname]/config.pck

The Mailman "dumpdb" script will deserialize and pretty-print a
config.pck (a python "pickle" file), i.e.:

python /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /path/to/list/config.pck

I agree this could be better documented.

-- 
Dan Young