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Barry Flanagan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to automate the creation of a large amount of lists from basic
> templates. This is for a schools project, where each school would have a
> mailing list for Staff, and for Students by default. When the school is
> created I need to remotely create this list in Sympa.
>
> The lists will all be the same with all authentication and subscriber
> info coming from LDAP. The only difference will be the name of the list,
> the username of the list owner, and the LDAP filter for the list.
>
>  
The "list families" was developed exactly for this purpose. The idea is 
to create a  set of file tht describe the kind of list you want to 
create. They are templates where vars are replaced by their value when 
running list family intentiation (vars are specified in a XML data set 
file as input for intentiation). The list instantiation can create a 
hugue number of list with just one command sympa.pl 
--instantiate_family=family_name  --robot=robot_name 
--input_file=/path/to/file.xml .

The malimy instentiation can also removed obsolete lists. Check this 
feature in Sympa documentation.

> Anyone have any suggestions on the best way of achieving this? SOAP does
> not appear to handle list creation as of yet.
>  
Next version will probably include soap list creation, but soap is not 
good way to perfom what you need because your problem is not only to 
create lists but also to remove them when needed  see : 
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node20.html

Serge Aumont