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[Tom Barton <>]

Should a domesticated app support the capabilities that Jon had to bake 
into his custom perl wrapper with suitable web services?

I note that sympa has a SOAP interface that might have the needed 
capabilities, or at least some of them. Maybe we should look into its 
capabilities in some detail.

<http://www.sympa.org/manual/soap>

Tom

Digant C Kasundra wrote:
> Forwarding Jon Robertson's responses found below....
>
> The command-line tool to create and delete lists worked well, that I 
> remember, and made it pretty simple to write a Perl module wrappering it 
> for adding and deleting lists, for pulling Sympa into the system.
>
> The actual *settings* for the lists created I didn't finish -- 
> specifically having it read the users from an LDAP filter.  However, at 
> that point I was hitting a time crunch and instead focused on making 
> sure the parts I'd finished were properly tested and working, so it's 
> not necessarily that there was anything wrong or difficult there other 
> than just getting used to Sympa (which even after, I don't feel like I 
> am, just that I focused on a couple of tiny slices of it).
>
> Looking at things where I left it, I think I almost had all the bits, 
> but wasn't sure where to bring them together completely.  The module I 
> wrote had a create_list function that would take 
> listname/subject/desc/owners, fill the data into a template, save the 
> result as an XML file, and then pass that file as the input settings for 
> the new list.  I believe I'd gotten it working as a static list, then 
> had begun to change the settings over to fill in what was needed for 
> getting the subscribers from LDAP.  But the issue there was as much 
> specifics on our LDAP setup as anything else.. I think I had all the 
> bits in question, just needed to pull them together with some help.