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[Bartek Rajwa <address@concealed>]

Micheal, I am glad you solved the problem!

Michael Redinger wrote:

> I found that this was our problem (LDAP access control lists and
> firewall rules; when I tried to test what the problem was, I did not
> restart the Webserver sothat the changes did not take effect etcetc -
> just the usual mistakes ... :-(  ).
> So, if you use FastCGI, make sure to not only restart Sympa but also
> Apache ...

Well, that was one of my mistakes as well. However, this is not the 
major problem I experienced with my installation. Reading old posts on 
this and sympa-dev groups I managed to find some information which is 
not present in the manual. Still, several mysteries remain:

1) I can log in using LDAP authentication, but only when uid is 
provided. If an e-mail address is given the authentication fails. I was 
under the impression that it should work both ways.

2) include_ldap_query can apparently extract only one attribute (the 
e-mail address). Therefore, when I check the list of subscribers I can 
see only the e-mail addresses, but no names (no cn, no uid)!

3) The e-mails which were sent to the group and are stored in the 
archive, are not identified by the e-mail addresses of the senders, nor 
by their names extracted from LDAP directory (cn), but just by uid taken 
from the e-mail addresses (the part of an e-mail address in front of @ 
character).

The bottom line is: the user has to login with his LDAP uid, the list of 
subscribers shows just his e-mail address (but not the LDAP uid, nor the 
cn), and the e-mails in the archive are shown with yet another 
identifier. Quite confusing... I am sure there is a way to have it 
set-up properly, but I have not found any clues in the documentation.

On the top of that I've got two mysterious messages in the sympa log file:
        Function available for lists in database mode only
It is not clear which function, though...

and another one:
	task_manager[24784]: (use cache) Could not tie to DB_File 
/var/sympa/expl/my_list/subscribers.db

Any suggestions?

Bartek

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