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[Mark Meenan <address@concealed>]

Due to the imminent arrival of GDPR I had recently been getting requests 
from list owners on how to ensure that their lists are populated by 
people who have agreed to be there. I thought one way might be to use 
the expire subscription option - that way subscribers have to confirm 
their inclusion on a regular basis.

No one had been using this before and I wanted to check how it worked so
I set up a test list and set it to use subscription expiry. However it 
didn't seem to work.

On looking further I found that the expire model is commented out in 
task.manager.pl


#my @list_models = ('expire', 'remind', 'sync_include');
my @list_models = ('sync_include', 'remind');


I tried swapping the lines


my @list_models = ('expire', 'remind', 'sync_include');
#my @list_models = ('sync_include', 'remind');

and relaunching sympa

but then I started getting syntax errors in /var/log/messages



> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: notice main::create() Creation of 
> /address@concealed
> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: notice main::create() With model 
> /home/sympa/default/list_task_models/expire.yearly.task
> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: err main::#335 > main::create#523 
> > main::check#564 Error at line 15: @deleted = delete (@selection)
> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: err main::#335 > main::create#523 
> > main::check#565 non valid assignment delete (@selection)
> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: err main::#335 > main::create#524 
> error : syntax error in 
> /address@concealed, 
> you should check /home/sympa/default/list_task_models/expire.yearly.task
> May 16 11:02:13 lists task_manager[31007]: notice main::create() 
> /address@concealed 
> deleted


Is this feature not working at all or am I doing missing something simple.



Thanks


Mark Meenan
University of Glasgow