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[Berge Schwebs Bjørlo <address@concealed>]

Greetings!

I need to generate a list of all valid list addresses from Sympa, including
-request, -editor and friends, for use with the MX (on a different box, which
in turn will be able to return error messages SMTP-time instead of letting
Sympa generate bounces for non-existing lists).

I thought perhaps this could be hacked^Wsolved by letting alias_manager use a
list_aliases.tt2­template to generate the config file for the MTA. Though, I
can't seem to let alias_manager actually find my list_aliases.tt2. On
http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/list-definition#list_template_files the
search order for the template files is given. But upon examining my
alias_manager.pl:

$tt2_include_path = [
                      '/etc/sympa/admtest.itea.ntnu.no',
                      '/etc/sympa',
                      '/usr/share/sympa'
                    ];

Note that this is Sympa 5.2.3-1.2, installed on Ubuntu Dapper, backported
from Ubuntu Feisty, which in turn is just a copy of the package in Debian. In
this package, paths have been changed from /home/sympa/* to Debian
Policy-compliant paths.

As a result, putting a list_aliases.tt2 in /etc/sympa/mail_tt2/ does not
change the behaviour of alias_manager. Putting it in /etc/sympa/ does. The
same results occurs on a default installation in /home/sympa/, as per the
documentation.

Quite possibly am I missing something here. It makes me wonder if this is the
default behaviour, or what I might be doing wrong. Should I place
list_aliases.tt2 in /etc/sympa/? Hints or pointers would be greatly
appriciated.

Cheers,
-Berge

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