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[Benjamin Renard <address@concealed>]

Hi

Le 10/04/2024 à 21:02, Chris Kay (via en Mailing List) a écrit :
> As a follow-up for those with Exchange Online in-house, how do you handle:
>
>   * Integration with GAL
Hi don't know how the GAL could be externally completed but if you known 
how to create an address in the GAL, the easiest way to automatically 
manage lists addresses (5-6 addresses by list) in the GAL on list 
creation/deletion is to write a custom aliases manager. The aliases 
manager is a script called by sympa to manage the local aliases tables. 
With your own version of this script, you could also taking care to 
manage the lists addresses in the GAL.

Sympa is provided with different versions of aliases manager scripts :
 - alias_manager.pl (default) : store aliases in a text file that could 
be used as an hash table in postfix
 - mysql_alias_manager.pl : store aliases in a MySQL table
 - ldap_alias_manager.pl : store aliases in a LDAP directory

It's also pretty simple to retrieve the list of available mailing lists 
addresses (5-6 addresses by list) from the Sympa database or by parsing 
the local sympa aliases table file.

>   * Using Sympa groups (especially ones with nested Exchange DLs) for
>     Outlook calendar invites?
I don't know what exactly is involved in using outlook calendars, but I 
mean these invitations will send email to the lists and you have to make 
sure that these emails will be accepted and distributed by Sympa without 
moderation or validation. If you have sender restrictions on your lists, 
it will be probably on the sender email address. In case of calendar 
invitation, the sender address is probably the email address of the user 
who create the event, so if he is a member of the list, no problem. For 
other/special case, you also could register a member to a list with the 
reception setting as nomail, to allow him to send email to the list 
without receiving email from the list.

Regards,

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