[Mageia-sysadm] Mailling list type

[Romain d'Alverny]

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