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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi,

You're right, the documentation is incorrect : the list_aliases.tt2 
template is not a mail template and therefore is not located in a 
mail_tt2/ subdirectory. I've just fixed the online documentation.

We've had the same needs as yours (ie exporting list aliases to the MX 
server) and we've chosen a different solution : we've customized the 
newaliases command that Sympa uses to use our homemade script. This 
script does 1) the exportation of list aliases to the MX server and 2) 
run the newaliases command. You can customize the newaliases command 
that is run by Sympa through the --with-newaliases option during the 
Sympa configure, see example below :

   # ./configure --with-newaliases=/usr/local/bin/export_aliases.pl

Berge Schwebs Bjørlo a écrit :
> 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.tt2 ­template 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.
>