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[Steven Peterson <address@concealed>]

Thanks very much for your response.  We use Axis for other uses and so a web services alternative is very appealing.  I looked at the WSDL and saw a number of operations with intriguing names, such as info, review, subscribe, and lists, but I was unable to find documentation.  The operations and data types look as if they are meant to support a web application for a single user, but not support an application that is serving the role of List Owner, that is, determining who is allowed to join a list.  For example, are the the following types of operations available?

o  Create a new list
o  Register for a callback to approve any new people requesting to join a list
o  Remove a number of people from a list
o  Find out who is on a list

- Steve

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

Using the mail API is one option with some drawbacks :

• the authentication of your application to sympa will probably be based on the From: SMTP header field which is very low level of trust (easy to forge)
• the ADD/DEL action is not immediatly performed and you can't manage error cases in your application

A better option is to use Sympa SOAP server and add a SOAP client in your application. We provide sample codes in perl, php and java. Read the documentation for more details : http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node11.html

address@concealed wrote:

Is it practical for another application to control the subscribers who are on a mailing list by solely using email posted commands?  In other words, if I have a separate application that has special logic for who can join a list, when they have to leave, etc, could this application use Sympa's email commands as an API?  (Assuming mailing list sizes of 1,000 to 5,000)
  

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