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["Kissman, Paul (BLC)" <address@concealed>]

Everyone,

 

I just installed the latest sympa,  6.2.20 from source on a development server.

 

There seems to be a change/problem with the way moderators and owners are found.  Let me know if  I should forward this to the developpers list.

 

We have many lists where there are no specific moderators defined, and the list owner handles the moderation tasks. 

 

I just sent a message as a non-subscriber to a list which required moderation and saw this series of messages in my log files:

 

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notice Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration::_send_confirm_to_editor() Warning: No owner and editor defined at all in list Sympa::List <mylist@mydomain>

err main::#243 > Sympa::Spindle::spin#92 > Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration::_twist#52 > Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration::_send_confirm_to_editor#147 Impossible to send the moderation request for message Sympa::Message

<address@concealed> to editors of list Sympa::List <mylist@mydomain> Neither editor nor owner defined!

Sep 22 12:57:35 mblc sympa_msg[5113]: err main::#243 > Sympa::Spindle::spin#92 > Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration::_twist#55 Failed to send moderation request of Sympa::Message <address@concealed> from address@concealed for list Sympa::List <mylist@mydomain>to editor(s)

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In trying to track down what is going on I took a look at ./bin/Sympa/Spindle/ToModeration.pm , and ./bin/Sympa/List.pm.   It looks like there have been a whole slew of changes to figuring out an admin’s email

 

Functions are “OBSOLETED” in favor of newer versions

 

For instance in List.pm,  I see:

 

## Returns an array of editors' email addresses

#  or owners if there isn't any editors' email addresses

#OBSOLETED: Use get_admins_email('receptive_editor') or

#           get_admins_email('actual_editor').

 

I am wondering if something got overlooked in moving to the new way of managing how admin emails are identified.

 

I’d rather not have to explicitly add a moderator to each moderated list if I don’t have to.

 

Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

 

Paul J. Kissman

Library Information Systems Specialist

Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

98 N. Washington St., Suite 401

Boston, MA  02114

address@concealed

mass.gov/mblc or mblc.state.ma.us

Phone: (617)725-1860 . (800)952-7403 (in-state)

Fax: (617)725-0140