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[Barry Flanagan <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
> 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 .
> 


Ahh, Thanks very much for that. I was not sure of what the "list
families" feature was for, now I know. Great!

Regards,

-Barry