Announcements of new sympa release

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Title: Need alpha test

 Sympa 3.3a - 26 September 2001

Dear Sympa lovers :-)

We are pleased to announce two alpha version. We need users to test two new set of features that many of you asked for: ldap and virtual hosting. We need feedback on unlikely bugs but also on features design

The first one is releated to LDAP features, the second one to virtual robot. Here are two new alpha-test distribution of sympa : sympa-3.3a-ldap and sympa-3.3a-vhost. We will merge both into a single beta-version in a few weeks ; the goal is to release sympa-3.3 during November.

Sympa team Lynda, Florent, Olivier & Serge

New set of features based on LDAP. sympa-3.3a-ldap.4 Download Ldap authentication via uid and emails stored in LDAP Directories. Named Filters : in the list's configuration you can grant privileges to people stored in an LDAP Directory thanks to scenario. Multiple login for users with multiple emails is possible starting from pref or which pages. Those addresses are used as alternative emails. Alternative addresses can also be extracted from the initial LDAP user authentication. Unified subscriptions : using a unique email address Changes : New conf file : ~sympa/etc/auth.conf (cf sample dir) Templates help.tpl : the information concerning the change of password does not appear in the case of LDAP authentication lists.tpl : subscriptions corresponding to all your email address in Sympa pref.tpl : to add new alternative_email new directory : ~sympa/etc/search_filters new conf file : *.ldap Samples : auth.conf, sample.ldap, sample.visibility, sample.send One more cookie : sympa_alt_email which is persistant

Sympa at last implement virtual robot ! sympa-3.3a-vhost.10 Download Sympa virtual robots are like Apache virtual hosting : a single daemon sympa.pl and a single cgi server wwsympa.fcgi now can serve multiple domains with their own set of list, templates and scenarii. All configuration parameters can be define for each robot except Sympa installation parameters such as binary and spool location, SMTP engine, antivirus plugging etc. A robot is named by its domain, and has its own setup directory ~sympa/etc/somedomain.org. This directory contains a robot.conf file that defines the virtual robot parameters : http_host title default_home lang listmaster max_size and colors. ~sympa/etc/dom.org/ contains lists of dom.org robot Templates and scenarii will first be searched in ~sympa/etc/dom.org/wws_templates/, ~sympa/etc/dom.org/templates/, ~sympa/etc/dom.org/scenari/ directories before searching into ~sympa/etc. Check sample dir. [Florent Guilleux] Task manager: Various task automatic processing. List master may use predefined task models to automate recurrent processings such as regurlaly reminding subscribers their belonging to a list or updating certificate revocation lists. It is also possible to write one's own task models to meet particular needs. Unique actions may also be scheduled by this way. Bookmarks management in the document repository (shared)

In case of troubles, don't forget to check the release notes and the reference manual.