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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Robert,

I can think of 3 ways you could possibly perform an action triggered by 
moderation decisions, among them only one (number 1) is currently feasible :

   1/ archived.pl, the web archiving daemon gets the messages from the 
"outgoing" spool. It was named this way because we though it could be 
used for any other outgoing processing. You could easily change the 
archived.pl to perform other actions. The drawback of this solution is 
that you can't trigger anything on message rejection.
   2/ The generic solution : scenario files could recognize an 
execute()/plugin() action that would allow you to execute home-made code 
at rejection time.
   3/ The "web services" solution : next release of Sympa will include 
a SOAP server that provides access to ML services from within a program. 
We could add two reject() and distribute() functions. This way you could 
do all the moderation job outside Sympa and use Sympa SOAP service to 
reject/distribute messages.

GSLT Systems Administrator wrote:

> We have been using your most excellent mailing list manager sympa for
> over almost one year now and now we want more. :)
>
> The problem in short --we want to have a moderated list (on a virtual
> domain) where when a moderator accepts/rejects an incoming email it
> will trigger some event in addition to the ones in sympa, eg execute
> arbitrary program.
>
> A Somewhat longer description --we are running a site where any user
> is able too submit a news item via a web page. Before actually
> submitting the news item we want it to be moderated by at least on of
> our editors and they want to use email for doing so. So my idea is to
> use sympa, letting the news item be sent to a moderated mailing list
> (all members on this list are also moderators). When a moderator
> accepts a news item it will not only archive the email with mhonarc,
> but also trigger something so it will be publish on the web (rss, html
> etc).
>
> So what I need to know, is there something in sympa to trigger 3rd
> party programs when accepting/rejecting messages easily? If no, where
> should I look, in the archive.pl programme? Maybe even someone is
> using sympa in this way?
>
> Been browsing your docs and faqs. Searched the archives of this list.
> But I could not find anything.
>  
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites