NAME

Sympa::Aliases::External - Alias management: Updating aliases by external program

SYNOPSIS

use Sympa::Aliases;

my $aliases = Sympa::Aliases->new('/path/to/program',
    [ file => 'file' ] );
# or,
my $aliases = Sympa::Aliases->new('External',
    program => '/path/to/program', [ file => 'file' ] );

$aliases->check('listname', 'domain');
$aliases->add($list);
$aliases->del($list);

DESCRIPTION

Sympa::Aliases::External manages list aliases using external program.

Methods

• check ( $listname, $domain )

  See Sympa::Aliases::CheckSMTP.

• add ( $list )

• del ( $list )

  Invokes program with command line arguments:

    /path/to/program add | del listname domain [ file ]
  

  If processing succeed, program should exit with status 0. Otherwise it may exit with non-zero status (see also “Constants”).

Constants

Exit status

• ERR_CONFIG

  Configuration file has errors.

• ERR_PARAMETER

  Incorrect call to program.

• ERR_WRITE_ALIAS

  Unable to append to alias.

• ERR_NEWALIASES

  Unable to run newaliases command.

• ERR_READ_ALIAS

  Unable to read existing aliases.

• ERR_CREATE_TEMP

  Could not create temporary file.

• ERR_ALIAS_EXISTS

  Some of list aliases already exist.

• ERR_LOCK

  Can not lock resource.

• ERR_ALIASES_EMPTY

  The parser returned empty aliases.

SEE ALSO

Sympa::Aliases, Sympa::Aliases::CheckSMTP.

HISTORY

Sympa::Aliases::External module appeared on Sympa 6.2.23b.