The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Richard Caldwell <address@concealed>]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:18 +0200, address@concealed wrote:
> Redmond Militante wrote:

> This is not a bug but a feature ;-) In most cases it would be a problem 
> that user received a welcome message in that case but it seems some 
> listmaster needs it. 

I can confirm that this "feature" is working as described. :)

In working with LDAP sources I can see where one might want it to work
either way.  In our case the LDAP sourced lists are read-only announce
lists and the welcome message is to notify the user of related opt-in
discussion lists.

For some announcement lists we wouldn't want any welcome at all.

> We could modify Sympa in order to send welcome 
> message easily but we need :
> 
>     * let the list owner choose if he wants the welcome message to be sent
>     * the default to stay unchanged
>     * to be able to modify the welcome message depending on the data
>       source used to include new users
>     * do the same with the bye message ?

This sounds reasonable.  My one concern is to make sure that users don't
get unexpected bye or welcome messages if the LDAP resource should
become unavailable for a time.

Thanks,
Richard

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Franklin University
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