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["Michael L. Hitch" <address@concealed>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Robert McNicholas wrote:

> I looked at the Sympa 6 documentation, and this does not seem to be
> addressed in that version.  Am I correct?

  I believe you are correct.

> Have any patches been submitted to address this issue?  If not, and you
> were going to fix it, what approach would you take?

  We had the same desire, as our previous mailing list system had that 
capability.

  I saw some discussion about this, either on the sympa-users mailing 
list, or as a feature request - it's been a couple of years so I can't 
remember where I saw that.

  As far as I know, no one had submitted any patches for it (at least at 
the time I was looking).

  I have modified the code locally to just take the 2nd column from the 
database query results and pass that as the 'gecos' entry.

  Here's part of my patch at the time [we also had a requirement to take 
into account a confidentiallity field to conceal a subscribers entry, so
this isn't the complete patch I have].

--- /home/sympa/bin/List.pm.orig        2010-03-29 11:59:43.000000000 
-0600
+++ /home/sympa/bin/List.pm     2010-03-29 16:48:58.000000000 -0600
@@ -7897,11 +7897,15 @@ sub _include_users_sql {
        }

        $u{'email'} = $email;
+       $u{'gecos'} = $row->[1]; ## mhitch - 2nd column is user name
        $u{'date'} = time;
        $u{'update_date'} = time;
        $u{'id'} = join (',', split(',', $u{'id'}), $id);


Mike

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Michael L. Hitch                        address@concealed
Operations Consulting,  Information Technology Center
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT     USA