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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Elijah,

I'm afraid the 'expire' process is not working in Sympa, though it is 
documented...

When we've introduced the task manager in Sympa we needed to validate it 
first with a "not too dangerous" function and 'remind' represented less 
risks than 'expire'. We will fill this gap ASAP.

Elijah Saxon wrote:

> I would like to be able to force a one time expiration of a list. Once in
> a while, we suspect list owners of not getting prior consent before they
> add subscribers to their lists. Rather than just shutting down the list,
> we want to 'expire' the list (ie send a notice to all the subscribers that
> they must reply to or get unsubscribed).
>
> I tried this out as a task:
>
> \title.us forced expiration, 2 weeks notice
>
> /STEP1
> @selection = select_subs (older (execution_date))
> send_msg (@selection, expire_warning2)
> next ([execution_date]+2w, STEP2)
>
> /STEP2
> @selection = select_subs (older (execution_date))
> @deleted = delete (@selection)
> send_msg (@deleted, expire_deletion)
> stop ()
>
> I tried putting it in ~/spool/task/0.STEP1.forcedexpire.testlist. This
> does not work, I think because task manager requires the task be set in
> the config file (at least after the first step).
>
> Is there a way to do this? If not, what should I modify to be able to do
> this?
>  
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites