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[Joe Meslovich <address@concealed>]

I actually had been looking at the page in the documentation.  Do you tend to have one .incl file per list then in your data_sources directory?  Trying to conceptualize whether it is like one monolithic .incl file or several .incl files per list. 

 

Joseph Meslovich Network Administrator & IT Security Officer Information Technology Center Bridgewater College Phone: 540-828-5343 | bridgewater.edu

 

 

From: Michael Young <address@concealed>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 4:30 PM
To: Joe Meslovich <address@concealed>; address@concealed
Subject: Re: Question about automating adding subscribers to lists

 

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Joseph-

 

Take a look at Sympa data sources. There are multiple options.

 

https://www.sympa.community/manual/customize/data-sources.html

 

Once configured, you can trigger a sync from the command line with “sympa.pl --sync_include … “

 

We use LDAP sync extensively here, both level 1 and 2.

 

Michael Young

 

From: address@concealed <address@concealed> on behalf of Joe Meslovich <address@concealed>
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM
To: address@concealed <address@concealed>
Subject: [en@sympa] Question about automating adding subscribers to lists

My college has used Mailman v2 for over a decade now and we are transitioning to using Sympa.  We have over 500 mailing lists where we automated list membership using bash scripts to build flat data files and then used Mailman’s sync_members command to add and remove subscribers from those lists. 

I see there are command line options in Sympa to add or delete subscribers/moderators/owners but nothing directly equivalent to sync_members.  I have also seen that I could include a local file as a data source in Sympa.  In our early testing we had testing including members of an AD group using and LDAP level 2 include file. 

Do most Sympa admins handle list membership automation through data sources or command line scripts? 

 

Joseph Meslovich Network Administrator & IT Security Officer Information Technology Center Bridgewater College Phone: 540-828-5343 | bridgewater.edu