Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Guillaume Rousse a écrit :

> > I am new maintainer for mandrake sympa package, and I have a slight 
> > problem with wwsympa configuration.
> > [...]
> > You seem to mingle to distinct directories : for both bounces and 
> > archives, there is a incoming spool AND a directory for storing 
> > bounces and archived messages. The first 2 directories are probably 
> > what is located in /var/spool/sympa/ ; it seems a perfectly logical 
> > choice. Guy Paressant and Gilles Budet who have been working on 
> > mandrake packages might confirm.
>
> If I understand correctly, sympa need four directories:
> bounces incoming
> archive incoming
> bounces storage
> archive storage 

That's it.

> The path to storage directories is set through the --prefix option, 
> while the path to the incoming directories is set through the 
> --with-spooldir option.

Default for --prefix is /home/sympa
Default for --spooldir is --prefix + /spool
Default for 'spool' sympa.conf parameter is --spooldir

> The directories names themselves are not configurable through the 
> ./configure script, only by editing the configuration files later. 

You're right, only defaults for the root spool directory can be 
configured via ./configure ; it can be overriden in sympa.conf.

> However, it seems to be only three directives available:
> queuebounce 

This is the path to the "incoming" spool for bounces.

> bounce_path 

Is the path to the bounce "storage" directory.
(Maybe we should rename it 'bounce_storage')

> arc_path 

Is the path to store archives

> Is the one for incoming bounce directory missing?

No you are missing the spool for messages to be archives named 'outgoing'.
It was named this way because when designing this feature we thought it 
could be used for any outgoing process
(maybe we should also rename this one)

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites