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[Warren G Anderson <address@concealed>]

Thanks Serge. And sorry that I didn't find that on my own.

Warren

On Feb 5, 2009, at 00:32 , Serge Aumont wrote:

> Hi
>
> Warren G Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are experimenting with Sympa as a mailing list solution for a
> > medium sized (800 person) scientific collaboration. One of the
> > things that we are excited by is that we can define mailing lists
> > from LDAP. We authorize in many domains (web, shell, etc) using
> > groups defined in LDAP. Allowing these same groups to form the
> > membership for mailing lists is highly desirable.
> >
> > However, our initial tests indicate that the membership for
> > mailing lists is cached after the initial LDAP query, and that
> > changes to our LDAP group membership are not reflected in the
> > Sympa mailing lists until the membership is resynchronized with
> > the LDAP through wssympa.
> >
> > Is this observation correct? If so, is there some way to have changes
> > in LDAP reflected dynamically in Sympa?
> LDAP extraction (and any other sources) used to define list membership
> are dynamically updated. This is controled by the ttl list parameter.
> The update is performed systematically by the task_manager demon or
> others Sympa demno as describe in page :
>
> http://www.sympa.org/manual/managing-members#cache_management
>
>
>
> Serge Aumont

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