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["antonelli@cnaf" <address@concealed>]

Hi Terry

On 7/19/21 16:31, McLaren, Terry wrote:
> There are two key settings for data source sync on the Edit List Config > 
> Data Source Setup page.
>
> 'Inclusions timeout' - we have our set to  86400 sec  (24hr or auto sync once 
> per day)
> AND
> 'Inclusions timeout for message distribution' - ours is set to 300 sec (5 
> min)   IMHO this second sync is the most important one since Sympa will check 
> to make sure a subscriber sync occurs within the last  5 minutes before it 
> sends an email to the subscribers.   This insures the subscriber list will be 
> less than 5 min stale.
>
> Hope this helps,

yes it does,

thank you
cheers
Stefano

> Terry McLaren
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of antonelli@cnaf
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 4:46 AM
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> Subject: [sympa-users] Including members from external source (is there a 
> cron job running?)
>
> Dear All,
>
> [Sympa 6.2.58 multi-domain on CentOS 7.9]
>
> one users is including/excluding members of a list from external source (in 
> particular it's a text file served from 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://some_server/a_file.txt__;!!DZ3fjg!ukOKRk8mEErIM6FqAIUWK0zjaOazVvqzgKNVlerPBqDlppC_VK5ysFdHl2zmGn5QWw$
>  ) and it works.
>
> I'm not able to understand if and how many times a day the process runs and 
> which is the process which updates the subscribers list apart from a manual 
> syncronization.
>
> I've tried to check sympa.log grepping "include" and I find only lists 
> including from LDAP source and, even in this case, I do not find a regular timestamp 
> for a cron job running.
>
> Could you explain me how it works?
>
> thank you
> cheers
> Stefano