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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Catherine,

address@concealed a écrit :
> I have been configuring sympa 5.3 to use external data sources to obtain both
> subscriber and list moderator/owner information.
>
> This has been successful and a query has arisen that it would be nice to have
> some official sympa clarification on. All the data regarding subscribers etc
> appears to be held locally by sympa in its own tables (list_admin &
> list_subscriber) and this gets updated via the external datasources when
> task_manager executes its task. (or alternatively via the web interface).
>
> If for some reason the connection to the external data source is lost am I
> correct in assuming that sympas local storage of subscribers, moderators etc
> stays unmodified until such time that the connection/retrieval of external 
> data
> is restored?
>
>   
You're right and that should be documented :-[
> I've proved this is the case on our local test installation I just wanted to
> make sure I have understood the behaviour correctly.
>
>   
Perfectly understood.
Badly documented. I should spend some time tomorrow to complete the 
documentation about included members/owners.