SYMPA(8)sympa 6.1.24 SYMPA(8)NAME
sympa, sympa.pl - A Modern Mailing List Manager
SYNOPSIS
sympa.pl [ -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]][
--purge_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-d, --debug
Enable debug mode.
-f, --file=another.sympa.conf
Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of
/usr/local/etc/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'.mo must be located in
/usr/local/share/locale 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@some.company.com John - accountant
mary.blacksmith@another.company.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)
--purge_list=list[@robot]
Remove the list (remove archive, configuration files, users and
owners in admin table. Restore is not possible after this
operation.
--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.
FILES
/usr/local/etc/sympa.conf main configuration file.
/var/run/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 PDF formats can be found in
<http://www.sympa.org/manual/>.
The mailing lists (with web archives) can be accessed at
<http://listes.renater.fr/sympa/lists/informatique/sympa>.
AUTHORS
Serge Aumont
Comite Reseau des Universites
Olivier Salauen
Comite Reseau des Universites
Contact authors at <sympa-authors@listes.renater.fr>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright X 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001 Comite Reseau des Universites
Copyright X 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 bug tracker. See <http://www.sympa.org/tracking>.
SEE ALSOsympa.conf(5), archived(8), bounced(8), sendmail(8), alias_manager(8)6.1.24 2015-10-07 SYMPA(8)
