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17. Using Sympa commands

Users interact with Sympa, of course, when they send messages to one of the lists, but also indirectly through administrative requests (subscription, list of users, etc.).

This section describes administrative requests, as well as interaction modes in the case of private and moderated lists. Administrative requests are messages whose body contains commands understood by Sympa, one per line. These commands can be indiscriminately placed in the Subject: or in the body of the message. The To: address is generally the sympa@domain alias, although it is also advisable to recognize the listserv@domain address.

Example:

From: pda@prism.uvsq.fr
To: sympa@cru.fr

LISTS
INFO sympa-users
REVIEW sympa-users
QUIT

Most user commands can have three-letter abbreviations (e.g. REV instead of REVIEW).

17.1 User commands

17.2 Owner commands

Some administrative requests are only available to list owner(s). They are indispensable for all procedures in limited access mode, and to perform requests in place of users. These requests are:

As above, these commands can be prefixed with QUIET to indicate processing without acknowledgment of receipt.


17.3 Moderator commands

If a list is moderated, Sympa only distributes messages enabled by one of its moderators (editors). Moderators have several methods for enabling message distribution, depending on the send list parameter (13.3.8, page [*]).

See also the recommendations for moderators.


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