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["Adam Bernstein" <address@concealed>]

Chiming in:  The only thing sympa looks at to send messages or
generate subscriber lists is subscriber_table.  The user_table just
stores persistent data on each user that's independent of any list,
like their password, to keep such information consistent across the
server.  (Full name should also be in that category, but the 
situation is complicated by the need to duplicate it in the 
subscriber_table for use in sorting subscriber lists, and there 
doesn't seem to be any real synchronization of this data in the two
tables, alas.)

Users in the user_table who do not also appear in the subscriber_table
(ie. are not on any lists) are eventually purged from the user_table
by sympa automatically, once a month.

    ab
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:15 AM
> To: Thomas Barth; address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] user-table?
> 
> 
> At 10:55 AM +0100 1/20/04, Thomas Barth wrote:
> >Hi Michelle
> >
> >>  >
> >>  >Why are subsribers equal to users?
> >>
> >>  I can't speak of your importing issue - I'm not sure what the problem
> >>  is there. But the point of having two tables is that the user table
> >
> >The question is if I do also have to delete entries from the user-table
> >to prevent sympa from sending emails twice when restarting sympa after a
> >crash.
> 
> Others who know better chime in please, but from my experience unless 
> there are entries in the subscriber_table, extra entries in the 
> user_table aren't of much consequence.
> -- 
> .Michelle
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