Developers of Sympa

[Thomas Berry <address@concealed>]

  I've managed to successfully stop the periodic (TTL-based) list 
synchronization by removing 'sync_include' from the @list_models 
variable in task_manager.pl.   The periodic list member synchronization 
was no longer needed since I changed sympa.pl to update a membership 
when the mailing list receives a new message, but only if the new 
message was received after the TTL for the list has expired.

  Also, the periodic update caused problems when a mailing list was 
created that had over 6000 members and took more than 5 minutes to 
complete the synchronization process.  I found that the sync_include 
would be initiated by the task manager while the list was being 
instantiated.  This would cause numerous SQL errors indicating that the 
member was duplicate; this would cause the message that initiated the 
list instantiation to fail and moved to the msg/bad spool.

Thomas