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List:       mailman-users
Subject:    [Mailman-Users] Re: What does rmlist remove?
From:       Carl Zwanzig <cpz () tuunq ! com>
Date:       2021-03-23 16:37:30
Message-ID: 02f695df-235c-6a85-9bca-0fd9db9c1131 () tuunq ! com
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On 3/23/2021 4:18 AM, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> what files are being removed by rmlist (without -a). I suppose,
> /var/lib/mailman/lists/$LISTNAME/config.pck and the entries in
> /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
> 
> When I restore both, have I restored the list? Mailman2 uses no
> database, so maybe the answer is yes?

glancing at the code (in the ./bin directory), rmlist removes

contents of the /lists/ directory
held messages
stale locks
any MTA-specific aliases (e.g. aliases or virtual-mailman)
archives

the config.pck file -is- the "database" for each list.

Read up on how the virtualization stuff works, too.

z!
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