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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Tomasz

> I have sympa 2.2.7 on linux, with perl 5.005_03 and all the required
> and recommended modules.  I set up a test list, using plain flat file
> repositories for subscribers, and have noticed that sympa will not 
> send mail to newly added addresses until I restart it.
> 
> the logs go like this:
> Aug  4 00:17:11 kruk sympa[19694]: Parsing: Article to approve 
> Aug  4 00:17:11 kruk sympa[19694]: Parsing: distribute test 
> 8fbbba7954efe4023cd3c54c66da735e 
> Aug  4 00:17:12 kruk sympa[19694]: Message for test from address@concealed 
> accepted (1 seconds, 0 sessions) 
> Aug  4 00:17:12 kruk sympa[19694]: DISTRIBUTE test from address@concealed 
> accepted (1 seconds) 
> 
> but sympa doesn't even look at the subscribers file:
> [...]
> default_user_options
> reception mail
> visibility noconceal
>
> and the users are indeed being subscribed with 'mail' enabled:

This is a bug of version 2.2.7 which has been fixed.
Sympa consider empty reception field as «mail» but didn't expect 
explicit «reception mail». In your situation, default_user_options 
forces reception field to «mail» which was interpreted by Sympa as 
«nomail» ; Consequence : sympa doesn't send messages to the subscriber.

> Is there something wrong with my setup, is this a bug in sympa, or 
> where should I be looking?

You can either apply a patch yourself or update to a patched version.

        patch: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/distribution/patch/patch.maildefault
        sympa-2.2.7-1: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/distribution/

Thanks.