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[Edward Rynes <address@concealed>]

I guess I should be asking a more basic question.

How can I programatically create a sympa list who's subscribers are  
defined by an LDAP query?

We need to be able to create new mailing lists for a few special  
groups that require access to controlled data in our LDAP server.   
For security reasons we can not make the "data source" portions of  
the Web forms available to the Sympa end users.  We were hoping to  
have an external program, that is only accessible to these special  
groups, that can then call Sympa to create the new lists.

Thanks!


On Jun 10, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

> Hi Edward,
>
> You are mixing 2 Sympa features :
> building a mailing list based on an XML file
> including list members via LDAP
> Therefore and because you don't provide any log entries or config  
> files, I don't understand what is your problem.
>
> Concerning the XML file : apart from 3 mandatory nodes in your XML  
> file (listname, subject and type) it can include any node (lang,  
> language or xxx) ; it justs need to be the same variables as the  
> one you will refer to in the config.tt2 file.
>
> If you provide your XML file, config.tt2, the command line you are  
> running and the result we can probably understand what went wrong.
>
> Edward Rynes wrote:
> > I am trying to create a list from an XML file that gets its   
> > subscribers from an LDAP query.
> >
> > I can create the list successfully but the LDAP query is not   
> > included.  What is the correct XML syntax for including an   
> > include_ldap_query in a new list?
> >
> >
> > P.S.  The documentation says that the XML file should contain the   
> > line   "<language>en_US</language>".  This is not correct.  It  
> > should  be "<lang>en_US</lang>".