johnflewis@fermium:~$ sudo -u list /usr/local/sbin/rename_list wmt wmt-test Going to rename list 'wmt' to 'wmt-test'. Go ahead? (y/n) y First we are creating the new list 'wmt-test like any other list. Please use your email address as list admin when asked. It will be overwritten later.'. /var/lib/mailman/bin/newlist wmt-test Enter the email of the person running the list: Initial wmt-test password: Hit enter to notify wmt-test owner... Syncing list config and subscribers from 'wmt' to 'wmt-test'. /usr/bin/rsync -avp /var/lib/mailman/lists/wmt/ /var/lib/mailman/lists/wmt-test/ sending incremental file list ./ config.pck config.pck.last digest.mbox pending.pck request.pck sent 10,781 bytes received 114 bytes 21,790.00 bytes/sec total size is 10,365 speedup is 0.95 Changing the list 'real_name' to 'wmt-test' after we copied config over. echo "real_name = 'wmt-test'" | /var/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i /dev/stdin wmt-test Copying mbox file from 'wmt' to 'wmt-test'. cp /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/wmt.mbox/wmt.mbox /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/wmt-test.mbox/wmt-test.mbox Recreating HTML archives from mbox file for 'wmt-test'. /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch wmt-test #00000 figuring article archives 2015-September Updating index files for archive [2015-September] Date Subject Author Thread Computing threaded index Updating HTML for article 0 Pickling archive state into /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/wmt-test/pipermail.pck Making sure mbox file is owned by list:list. chown list:list /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/wmt-test.mbox/wmt-test.mbox Adding 'wmt@lists.wikimedia.org' to acceptable aliases on 'wmt-test'. echo "acceptable_aliases = 'wmt@lists.wikimedia.org'" | /var/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i /dev/stdin wmt-test Please add the following code to './files/exim/listserver_aliases': -------- wmt: wmt-test -------- Please add the following code to './modules/mailman/templates/lists.wikimedia.org.org': -------- Redirect permanent /mailman/listinfo/wmt https://<%= @lists_servername %>/mailm an/listinfo/wmt-test -------- To finish this please upload the code changes above to Gerrit and merge. Test by sending a mail to both wmt@lists.wikimedia.org and wmt-test@lists.wikimedia.org. Check the listinfo pages at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmt and https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmt-test Don't forget to update the ticket and that should be all. Bye. johnflewis@fermium:~$ sudo -u list /var/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist -a wmt-test Removing list info Removing private archives Removing private archives Removing public archives wmt-test public archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/wmt-test.mbox johnflewis@fermium:~$ sudo -u list /var/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist -a wmt Removing list info Removing private archives Removing private archives Removing public archives wmt public archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/wmt.mbox