The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

address@concealed a écrit :
> Hello address@concealed
> > Note that Sympa will query the member data source (ie your LDAP directory)
> >     
> before sending a message to the list. 
>
> I didn't notice that and I find this note very intereting.
> In fact I've spent the last two hours working on this... running LDAP daemon 
> in debug mode (-d 256) to see what happens working with Sympa and it actually 
> does
> a query each time I do something, not just posting a message.
>
> In particular I've synchronized them then manually modified LDAP so that they 
> were NOT synchro (Ive added my personal email). I've tried to send several 
> messages (post) and I've noticed that Sympa *sometimes* synchronized its own 
> DB with LDAP before sending the email (the email arrived to the address that 
> wasnt in Sympa).
>
> Now Im asking myself ...why didnt Sympa always get synchronized with LDAP 
> before posting a message but only sometimes?
>
> Ive tried this twice in a row just before posting this message. Each time I 
> modified LDAP so that they werent synchro. The first time Sympa got 
> synchronized to LDAP, while the second didnt.
>
> Between the two sendings has passed a VERY short time (a couple of minutes) 
> while between the first and the previous one like half a hour.
>
> Does this automatic synchro depend on a particular thing in the config file?
>   
You're right, Sympa has another TTL notion that determines how long the 
members cache is valid regarding the distribution process. In Sympa 
5.3.x this value is hard-coded to 5 minutes. A new list parameter has 
been added for this in the development version. Here is the patch : 
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/List.pm?r1=4469&r2=4478&root=sympa&view=patch