The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

["Gavin Younger" <address@concealed>]

Thanks Olivier, 

Yes I eventually tracked that down... that's useful. I am right in assuming 
that the config.tt2 file can reference any source (ie file or database) and 
not just the LDAP source that's used in the example?

Gavin

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Olivier Salaün - CRU [mailto:address@concealed] 
>Sent: 20 February 2007 15:22
>To: Gavin Younger
>Cc: sympa-users
>Subject: [sympa-users] Re: On the fly lists....
>
>The feature you are requesting is part of Sympa 5.3.x. It has 
>been developed by S.Amrani for the needs of the French 
>ministry of defense. 
>You can browse the related documentation : 
>http://www.sympa.org./wiki/manual/list-families#automatic_list_creation
>
>The goal is to trigger list creation when a mail is received 
>for the list. It makes use of list families feature and highly 
>use the expressiveness of TT2 template format.
>
>Sylvain, correct me if I missed an essential aspect of the feature...
>
>Gavin Younger wrote:
>> We have a requirement for to be able to create mailing lists 
>"on the fly" for one-time mailshots. The idea being that a 
>user would be able to specify a list of addresses to populate 
>the list from a database (or other source) - the system would 
>then create a mailing list with some unique name (eg 
>address@concealed), when the mailshot is done 
>it would then remove the list. 
>>
>> I seem to remember some discussion about this being done 
>with families a while back, but cannot seem to find a 
>reference...can anyone on the list point me in the right direction?
>>   
>
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