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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Berry wrote:

  I just upgraded to the latest release of Sympa: 5.3b.4 from the svn repository.

  For lists that were automatically created, it isn't apparent how to update the lists when changes are made to their family configuration.

Currently the only way to trigger list families update is via the "sympa.pl --modify_list" command (to update a single list) or "sympa.pl --instantiate_family" (to update all lists belonging to the family).

  You'll remember that we added a dynamic list settings within the config.tt2 of the family using the TT Plugin function to take advantage of some of the list's settings that are stored in the LDAP directory.

I remember vaguely your specific setup. I think it would be worth sharing you experience via the Sympa FAQ. : http://www.sympa.org/wiki/faq/families
FAQ is sometimes a better place for finding information than list archives.
You're welcome to contribute.

The mailing list's configuration needs to be updated to reflect changes made to the settings in the LDAP directory.  I would expect the mailing list configuration--much like the members of the list--would be updated automatically when a message is sent to one of these lists, but running a process (cron) to periodically update the lists would also be sufficient.

What you ask for is not available yet, but it would be of interest to add a configuration parameter to Sympa that allows lists belonging to a family to be automatically updated. We've still got to determine :

• if it would be a global parameter
• what event would trigger the update (message sent to the list ?)
• should the trigger happen only if the family config.tt2 has changed ?

I invite you to add a feature request : https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23

Thanks.

PS : I'd suggest such messages as yours should be posted to the sympa-dev ML.