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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Cassiano Surek wrote:
> 
> I´m currently using Listar here at my company, but Listar is beginning to
> give me lots of headaches, so I´m kinda thinking on switching to Sympa or
> maybe Mailman. One nice thing is that I can then integrate Sympa to my
> Intranet, which is based on PHP and Mysql. :) That´s way cool!

Fine

> I need your advice on a couple of things:
> 
> 1) I have a cascaded setup of lists, where everyone posts to every list
> (inside the company), but at a certain list only some are subscribed - like
> on a department. Can sympa have kind of authorization scheme, where
> everyone posts to closed post lists, but they are subscribed only on their
> department list?

Every command and message distribution in Sympa is controlled by scenarios :
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/distribution/sympa-3.3a-vhost.10/doc/sympa/node10.html#SECTION001080000000000000000

You can have all your department ML setup as 'send private' and
your global ML that allows somebody subscribed to any ML to post.
The scenario will look like :
        is_subscriber([listname], [sender]) smtp,md5,smime -> do_it
        is_subscriber('dpt1-l', [sender])   smtp,md5,smime -> do_it
        is_subscriber('dptN-l', [sender])   
        true()                              smtp,md5,smime -> reject

> 2) Can a post to a list be copied to another list? Say, if I have a list
> named cc@ (for customer care) and there are two departments in two cities,
> with lists cc.newyork@ and cc.chicago@, can a post to cc@ be handed out to
> bot cc.newyork@ and cc.chicago@?

That's more a sendmail aliases problem...

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités