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Sympa
Mailing Lists Management Software
version 4.0.a9

Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün, Christophe Wolfhugel,

08 January 2004

Contents
1. Presentation
- 1.1 License
- 1.2 Features
- 1.3 Project directions
- 1.4 History
- 1.5 Authors and credits
- 1.6 Mailing lists and support
2. what does Sympa consist of ?
- 2.1 Organization
- 2.2 Binaries
- 2.3 Configuration files
- 2.4 Spools
3. Installing Sympa
- 3.1 Obtaining Sympa, related links
- 3.2 Prerequisites
- 3.3 Compilation and installation
- 3.4 Robot aliases
- 3.5 Logs
- 3.6 INIT script
- 3.7 sympa.pl
4. Mail aliases
- 4.1 Robot aliases
- 4.2 List aliases
- 4.3 Alias manager
- 4.4 Virtual domains
5. sympa.conf parameters
- 5.1 Site customization
- 5.2 Directories
- 5.3 System related
- 5.4 Sending related
- 5.5 Quotas
- 5.6 Spool related
- 5.7 Internationalization related
- 5.8 Bounce related
- 5.9 Priority related
- 5.10 Database related
- 5.11 Loop prevention
- 5.12 S/MIME configuration
- 5.13 Antivirus plug-in
6. Sympa and its database
- 6.1 Prerequisites
- 6.2 Installing PERL modules
- 6.3 Creating a sympa DataBase
- 6.4 Setting database privileges
- 6.5 Importing subscribers data
- 6.6 Extending database table format
- 6.7 Sympa configuration
7. WWSympa, Sympa's web interface
- 7.1 Organization
- 7.2 Web server setup
- 7.3 wwsympa.conf parameters
- 7.4 MhOnArc
- 7.5 Archiving daemon
- 7.6 Database configuration
8. Sympa SOAP server
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Web server setup
- 8.3 Sympa setup
- 8.4 The WSDL service description
- 8.5 Client-side programming
9. Authentication
- 9.1 S/MIME and HTTPS authentication
- 9.2 Authentication with email address, uid or alternate email address
- 9.3 Generis SSO authentication
- 9.4 CAS-based authentication
- 9.5 auth.conf
- 9.6 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
10. Authorization scenarios
- 10.1 rules specifications
- 10.2 LDAP Named Filters
- 10.3 scenario inclusion
- 10.4 Hidding scenario files
11. Virtual robot
- 11.1 How to create a virtual robot
- 11.2 robot.conf
12. Customizing Sympa/WWSympa
- 12.1 Template file format
- 12.2 Site template files
- 12.3 Web template files
- 12.4 Sharing data with other applications
- 12.5 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
- 12.6 Internationalization
- 12.7 Topics
- 12.8 Authorization scenarios
- 12.9 Loop detection
- 12.10 Tasks
13. Mailing list definition
- 13.1 Mail aliases
- 13.2 List configuration file
- 13.3 Examples of configuration files
- 13.4 Subscribers file
- 13.5 Info file
- 13.6 Homepage file
- 13.7 List template files
- 13.8 Stats file
- 13.9 List model files
- 13.10 Message header and footer
14. Creating and editing mailing using the web
- 14.1 List creation
- 14.2 List edition
15. List configuration parameters
- 15.1 List description
- 15.2 Data source related
- 15.3 Command related
- 15.4 List tuning
- 15.5 Bounce related
- 15.6 Archive related
- 15.7 Spam protection
16. Shared documents
- 16.1 The three kind of operations on a document
- 16.2 The description file
- 16.3 The predefined authorization scenarios
- 16.4 Access control
- 16.5 Shared document actions
- 16.6 Template files
17. Bounce management
18. Antivirus
19. Using Sympa with LDAP
20. Sympa with S/MIME and HTTPS
- 20.1 Signed message distribution
- 20.2 Use of S/MIME signature by Sympa itself
- 20.3 Use of S/MIME encryption
- 20.4 S/Sympa configuration
- 20.5 Managing certificates with tasks
21. Using Sympa commands
- 21.1 User commands
- 21.2 Owner commands
- 21.3 Moderator commands
Index
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