NAME

Sympa::Aliases - Base class for alias management

SYNOPSIS

package Sympa::Aliases::FOO;

use base qw(Sympa::Aliases);

sub check { ... }
sub add { ... }
sub del { ... }

1;

DESCRIPTION

This module is the base class for subclasses to manage list aliases of Sympa.

Methods

• new ( $type, [ key => value, … ] )

  Constructor. Creates new instance of Sympa::Aliases.

  Returns one of appropriate subclasses according to $type:

  • 'none'

    No aliases management.

  • Full path to executable

    Use external program to manage aliases. See Sympa::Aliases::External.

  • Name of subclass

    Use a subclass Sympa::Aliases::_name_ to manage aliases.

  For invalid types returns undef.

  Note: For compatibility to the earlier versions of Sympa, if a string SBINDIR/alias_manager.pl was given as $type, Sympa::Aliases::Template subclass will be used.

  Optional _key_ => _value_ pairs are included in the instance as hash entries.

• check ($listname, $robot_id)

  Instance method, overridable. Checks if the addresses of requested list exist already.

  Parameters:

  • $listname

    Name of the list. Mandatory.

  • $robot_id

    List’s robot.

  Returns:

  True value if one of addresses exists. 0 if none found. undef if something wrong happened.

  By default, this method always returns 0.

• add ($list)

  Instance method, overridable. Installs aliases for the list $list.

  Parameters:

  • $list

    An instance of Sympa::List.

  Returns:

  1 if installation succeeded. 0 if there were no aliases to be installed. undef if not applicable.

  By default, this method always returns 0.

• del ($list)

  Instance method, overridable. Removes aliases for the list $list.

  Parameters:

  • $list

    An instance of Sympa::List.

  Returns:

  1 if removal succeeded. 0 if there were no aliases to be removed. undef if not applicable.

  By default, this method always returns 0.

Function

• check_new_listname ( $listname, $robot )

  Function. Checks if a new listname is allowed.

  TBD.

  Parameteres:

  • $listname

    A list name to be checked.

  • $robot

    Robot context.

  Returns:

  If check fails, an array including information of errors. If it succeeds, empty array.

  Note: This should be used to check name of list to be created. Names of existing lists may not necessarily pass checks by this function.

  This function was added on Sympa 6.2.37b.2.

SEE ALSO

Sympa::Aliases::CheckSMTP, Sympa::Aliases::External, Sympa::Aliases::Template.

HISTORY

alias_manager.pl as a program to automate alias management appeared on Sympa 3.1b.13.

Sympa::Aliases module as an OO-based class appeared on Sympa 6.2.23b, and it obsoleted alias_manager.pl.