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NAME

sympa (or sympa.pl) − A Modern Mailing List Manager

SYNOPSIS

sympa [ −d, −−debug ] [ −f, −−file=another.sympa.conf ]
[ −k, −−keepcopy=directory ]
[ −l, −−lang=catalog ] [ −m, −−mail ]
[ −h, −−help ] [ −v, −−version ]

[ --import=listname ] [ --close_list=list[@robot]]
[ --lowercase ] [ --make_alias_file ]
[ --dump=listname ⎪ ALL ]

Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can cope with big lists (200,000 subscribers) and comes with a complete (user and admin) Web interface. It is internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, and chinese locales. A scripting language allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa provides S/MIME and HTTPS based authentication and encryption. Sympa is a modern mailing-list manager. It supports a lot of useful features.

OPTIONS

−d, −−debug

Enable debug mode.

−f, −−file=another.sympa.conf

Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.

−k, −−keepcopy=directory

This option tells Sympa to keep a copy of every incoming message, instead of deleting them. ’directory’ is the directory to store messages.

−l, −−lang=catalog

Set this option to use a language catalog for Sympa. The corresponding catalog file ’catalogue’.cat must be located in /usr/lib/sympa/nls directory.

−m, −−mail

Sympa will log calls to sendmail, including recipients. This option is useful for keeping track of each mail sent (log files may grow faster though).

−h, −−help

Print this help message.

−v, −−version

Print the version number.

With the following options sympa.pl will run in batch mode :

--import=list

Import subscribers in the list. Data are read from STDIN . The imported data should contain one entry per line : the first field is an email address, the second (optional) field is the free form name. Fields are spaces-separated.

Sample :

    ## Data to be imported
    ## email        gecos
    john.steward [AT] some.com           John - accountant
    mary.blacksmith [AT] another.com     Mary - secretary

--close_list=list[@robot]

Close the list (changing its status to closed), remove aliases and remove subscribers from DB (a dump is created in the list directory to allow restoring the list)

--lowercase

Lowercases email addresses in database.

--make_alias_file

Create an aliases file in /tmp/ with all list aliases. It uses the list_aliases.tpl template.

--dump=listname ⎪ ALL

Dumps subscribers of for ’listname’ list or all lists. Subscribers are dumped in subscribers.db.dump.