[Mageia-sysadm] Mailling list type

Fri Dec 10 14:37:03 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 13:15, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 02:47 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> After thinking hard, I have seen that we will likely need 7 profiles of
+>> mailling list ( sympa requires us to choose a profile when creating the
+>> list, so instead of using a different one for each list, I have tried to
+>> find the common one ).
+>>
+>> Basically, the only things that would matter are : [...]
+
+Looks good, thanks!
+
+> Here
+> ( http://www.sympa.org/manual/authorization-scenarios#named_filters ),
+> this is explained that we can do a query to ldap to find if a email can
+> post to a list. So far so good.
+>
+> But just one query.
+>
+> And so, I am unable to find a query who can give me the list of email of
+> people of a ldap group in our ldap ( as we do not use memberOf )
+>
+> We have 3 solutions :
+> - someone add the support for ldap queries with 2 level in sympa ( as
+> this is done for others ldap usage )
+>
+> - we use slapo-memberof
+> ( http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html )
+>
+> - we use slapo-dynlist ( same page )
+>
+> slapo-memberof seems to be what we want, but this doesn't seems dynamic
+> ( ie, we will have to update the 10 existing entries in ldap to make
+> them compliant ).
+>
+> slapo-dynlist seems overkill.
+>
+> Any LDAP guru to give insight ?
+
+Not a guru but what is the cost of using slapo-memberof (sounds the
+easiest for sympa to use, reading your mail)? (apart from updating the
+10 entries)
+
+Romain
+