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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 2/9/21 5:24 PM, Markus Jylhaenkangas wrote:
> Hi Soji,
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> In the first place, what is the version of Sympa you are using?
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> I am using 6.2.60
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>   - on large lists with synchronization, distribution_ttl parameter of the 
> list config (by default undefined) should be
> set as larger than the value of ttl parameter (by default 3600 seconds) so 
> that synchronization won’t be launched when
> delivery starts.
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> Thanks for the advice!
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> My concern is fetching of the data from the external database. If I have 
> understood correctly Sympa executes the defined
> SQL query at intervals, so in our case it could be quite a lot of data that 
> would get fetched frequently,
> 
> even for lists and members that have not been modified since last query.

Hello Marcus,

you should check if that is a real concern. Only the email addresses need to 
go over to the Sympa server.

How many lists / members we are talking about?

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> Is there any optimizations for this part or possibility to optimize it with 
> configurations?
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> Or is there way to programmatically trigger the sync process for specific 
> list, so we could update only the lists that
> have changed?
> 

You can sync lists from the commandline:

~ sympa --address@concealed

This can be expanded in a custom script, that's not particularly difficult.

Regards
        Racke

>  
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> Best regards,
> 
> Markus
> 


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