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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Generaly speaking, directly editing the database is not a good idea because the database format might change and your code would either not work anymore or introduce corrupted data into Sympa's backend. That's the reason why we developed a SOAP server in Sympa, to allow external programs to request Sympa services in a secured way.

In your situation though, removing subscriber_table entries sounds less risked than adding new entries because you don't need to know about the exact format of the DB entries.

Tim Koop wrote:

Thanks Chris and Olivier.

If the command line is not an option, I don't mind poking into Sympa's database myself.  Can somebody confirm that a simple delete of a record in subscriber_table would do the trick, even while Sympa is in the middle of a mailing?

Tim Koop wrote:

> Is there some way to unsubscribe an email address from a mailing list

> from the command-line?  I've looked in the documentation, but I can't

> find anything anywhere.

> 

> We sometimes have people in our own database who change their email

> addresses, so we need to automatically reflect that change in Sympa

> too.  I can't find a command-line command to change someone's email

> address.  The other way to do it would be to unsubscribe the old

> address and add the new one.

> 

> Is this possible at all?  What are we to do?