sympa(8)

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]

DESCRIPTION
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
Enable debug mode. Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf. This option tells Sympa to keep a copy of every incoming message, instead of deleting them. `directory' is the directory to store messages. 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. 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). Print this help message. Print the version number.

With the following options sympa.pl will run in batch mode : 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@some.company.com           John - accountant
    mary.blacksmith@another.company.com     Mary - secretary
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) Lowercases email addresses in database. Create an aliases file in /tmp/ with all list aliases. It uses the list_aliases.tpl template. Dumps subscribers of for `listname' list or all lists. Subscribers are dumped in subscribers.db.dump.

FILES
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf main configuration file.

/var/spool/sympa/sympa.pid this file contains the process ID of sympa.pl.

AVAILABILITY
Latest version of Sympa is available from http://www.sympa.org.

MORE DOCUMENTATION
The full documentation in HTML and PostScript formats can be found in /usr/share/doc/sympa/html/.

The mailing lists (with web archives) can be accessed at http://listes.cru.fr/wws/lists/informatique/sympa.

AUTHORS
Serge Aumont
     Comité Réseau des Universités

Olivier Salaün
     Comité Réseau des Universités

Contact authors at <sympa-authors@cru.fr>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001 Comité Réseau des Universités

Copyright © 1997,1998,1999 Institut Pasteur & Christophe Wolfhugel

You may distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

BUGS
Report bugs to <sympa-dev@cru.fr>.

SEE ALSO
sympa.conf(5), archived(8), bounced(8), sendmail(8), alias_manager(8)