Developers of Sympa

[Thomas Berry <address@concealed>]

Olivier,

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> Thomas Berry wrote:
> >   Reading the Sympa documentation, I found that list_task_model files 
> > are created for the remind task.  These model files appear to cause 
> > Sympa to generate the task spool files.  Once I removed the model 
> > files, the task spool files stopped getting recreated.
> >
> >   Correct me if I'm wrong, but this should prevent any further 
> > distribution of automated remind messages. Right?
> >
> >
> >
> > Sympa 5.3b.5
> >
> > I'm trying to stop the REMIND messages from being sent to subscribers.
> >
> > I removed "default_task_remind 2month" from sympa.conf; 

> That was the right thing to do, this parameter being the default for 
> list parameter 'remind_task'.
> You should not have reminder messages sent to list members anymore, 
> unless the 'remind_task' parameter has been set in the list 
> configuration file itself.

> > sympa.conf still has "global_remind listmaster".

> This parameter refers to the "REMIND *" feature that allows a listmaster 
> to send a global reminder to all users (check 
> mail_tt2/global_remind.tt2). This is not an automatic process. Note that 
> this parameter does not define a periodicity but an access control (who 
> can execute the REMIND * command). See 
> http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/conf-parameters/part1#global_remind

> > All mailing list config(s) has "remind owner".

> The 'remind' list parameter does not specify a remind task periodicity 
> (see 'remind_task' parameter), but an access control (who can execute a 
> REMIND mylist command). It  refers to an authorization scenario.

If I remove "remind owner" from the list config and "global_remind 
listmaster" from /etc/sympa.conf will the EXEC.remind task files still 
be generated? The reminder feature will not be used in our implementation.

> > Yet, messages are still being sent to subscribers.

> Check the 'remind_task' list parameter.

None of the lists have 'remind_task'.

> > What remains to be done to the configuration to prevent any remind 
> > message from being sent automatically.

> Do you have the 'cache_list_config' sympa.conf parameter set to 
> 'binary_file' ?
> If so, Sympa processes keep a binary version of list config files 
> (config.bin) and could still use defaults for list parameters such as 
> 'remind_task', whereas the 'default_remind_task' parameter has changed 
> (in sympa.conf) in the meanwhile.
> Read 
> http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/conf-parameters/part3#cache_list_config 
> for the drawbacks of using config.bin files.

Does the cache_list_config store settings from sympa.conf, like 
'default_task_remind'?

Thomas