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[Francis Lachapelle <address@concealed>]

Edward Rynes wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions on how to programatically create and  
> populate new mailing lists in Sympa (5.0.1).
>
> One example of what we are trying to do is to automatically create a  
> new mailing list for every course offered by the University, owned by  
> the instructor and have all of the students registered for the class  as 
> subscribers.
>
> I can create XML files and call sympa.pl to create the lists but how  do 
> I subscribe the students?
>
> If I have a list of students how do I "send" that list to sympa?

Define the parameter "include_file" in your list's configuration file:

http://sympa.org/doc/html/node19.html#SECTION001928000000000000000

> If the students are in an LDAP group how do I tell Sympa to include  
> that group?

Define the parameter "include_ldap_query" in your list's configuration file:

http://sympa.org/doc/html/node19.html#SECTION001926000000000000000

One related paramater to be aware of wrt to inclusions is "ttl", the 
time to live of the extracted data:

http://sympa.org/doc/html/node19.html#SECTION001922000000000000000


  Francis