Provided by: sympa_6.1.17~dfsg-1_amd64 
NAME
sympa, 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]][ --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 /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@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
/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
ComitX RXseau des UniversitXs
Olivier SalaXn
ComitX RXseau des UniversitXs
Contact authors at <sympa-authors@cru.fr>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright X 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001 ComitX RXseau des UniversitXs
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-dev@cru.fr>.
SEE ALSO
sympa.conf(5), archived(8), bounced(8), sendmail(8), alias_manager(8)
6.1.17 2013-10-22 SYMPA(8)