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Miguel Rueda wrote:

> We are migrating from Mailman to Sympa because of the fact that need 
> authentication with our users. Besides, we need to know if the user is 
> a staff, faculty or student member in order to show diferent lists.
>
> 1) We have an LDAP server with the e-mail of the users, but we need to 
> authenticate with a POP3 server (mail-password). Any idea? What the 
> auth.conf would be like? 

POP3 authentication is not allready availible. It would be easy to 
introduce (see the small perl code that done POP3 authentication at the 
end of this message), because auth.conf allow to define an LDAP method 
to fectch email by user id. If you want to do it, you are welcome 
otherwise, please describe the feature  in Sympa bugtrack, we will do it 
(no prevision date).


> 2) How can we show faculty lists when a faculty member log in and 
> staff lists when a staff member enter?

Have a look to the "visibily" scenario. It is dedicated to define who 
can see which list. As any scenario, it can include a "named filter " (a 
LDAP query), so  ascenario can check any user attribute in your LDAP 
server to decide for each  list must be hidden or printed to the user.

Serge Aumont

perl code for POP3 authentication

$pop = Net::POP3->new($mail_server)
   or die "Can't open connection to $mail_server : $!\n";
defined ($pop->login($username, $password))
   or die "Can't authenticate: $!\n";

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