The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

I won't answer to the "populate mailing list" question because Francis did it well...

To automate list creation, you should define "list families" ; that's exactly what it was designed for :

1. provide a set of XML data with individual list information
2. define the common caracteristics of mailing lists (privileges, message templates,...) ; this is the family
   
3. instantiate the family with your set of data
4. reinstantiate your family whenever your family definition or XML data change
5. when reinstantiating, keep what has been customized by each list owner
   

Here it is :
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node17.html
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node18.html

PS : too bad you missed the workshop we did at last year's Internet 2 meeting.
Here is the presentation : http://www.sympa.org/documentation/internet2-workshop.pdf

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?

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

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