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[Nick Holden <address@concealed>]

Yeah, OK. That makes sense.

But if I want to create a routine on a different server, say a web
server, that can add people to a list on a remote Sympa server, what
I've done is to have the web server create an email that sends:

QUIET ADD email list

to the appropriate sympa email address. The 'from' address is marked to
be the list owner, and the permissions for the list say owners can add
without notify. So, there's no notify, but the list owner still gets an
email from Sympa every time the web server adds someone to the list,
because Sympa replies to the 'from' address with a 'the results of your
commands' message. Can we turn that off, for this particular case, or
for this list?

Or could we create another list owner email address, that in fact goes
to /dev/null, from which the webserver could send those ADD emails?

Or is there a better way altogether?

Thanks,

Nick

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 13:26, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You might have more than 1 owner for a list ; that's the usage for 
> notify that notifies each list owner, not just the one that sent the 
> command.
> 
> Nick Holden wrote:
> 
> >I'm making good progress with Sympa, and liking it a lot. However, one 
> >issue I'm struggling with concerns the use of 'add' to add names to a list.
> >
> >Can someone explain the point in the difference between having 'add' set 
> >to (owner) and (owner_notify)? It appears that even with the option set to 
> >(owner) the list owner receives a reply to their 'add' command, in an
> >email headed 'Results of your commands'. Since in both cases only the list 
> >owner can make the 'add' command work, isn't it superfluous to have Sympa 
> >both reply to the list owner and, optionally, notify them as well
> >- the same person!
> >
> >One of my list owners says he doesn't want any email response when he adds 
> >an address to a list. So I changed the setting from (owner_notify) to 
> >(owner) and, although he doesn't get the 'notification', he does
> >still get the reply from Sympa with the results of his add command. How 
> >can this be turned off too?
> >  
> >
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Nick Holden <address@concealed>