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[Cefiar <address@concealed>]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:56, Edward Rynes wrote:
> I have a user that wants to move his lists over to Sympa but he has
> an unusual request.  He has two files for each list.  One is the
> subscribers and the other is the list of email addresses that are
> allowed to send to the list.  With Sympa 5.0 the first one is easy.
> But how do I handle the second part? (the senders list)

You could subscribe the members of the sender list to the list in "no mail" 
mode (ie: they do not receive mail). This allows them to post, but they don't 
receive mail.

There seems to be no global way to change a lot of users to this though, so 
I'd recommend importing the senders first, running an SQL command to change 
all the members of the list (which should only be the senders at this stage) 
to the "no mail" reception mode, and then import the rest of your 
subscribers.

Note: The same idea works well for seperate lists of people who receive 
digests as well. Import, change via sql, import real users.

What I'd really like would be an option to tell Sympa what reception mode I 
want users to have that I'm adding through an interface: Wether it's through 
the "Multiple Add" button on the web interface or via sympa.pl on the 
command-line. (For all I know it might be there now, I'm not running the 
latest version yet).

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - address@concealed