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[Edward Rynes <address@concealed>]

How do I do that from an external program?


On Aug 11, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Francis Lachapelle wrote:

> 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