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Sympa
Mailing Lists Management Software
version 5.2.3

Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün, Christophe Wolfhugel,

20 October 2006

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
- 2.5 Roles and privileges
3. Installing Sympa
- 3.1 Obtaining Sympa, related links
- 3.2 Prerequisites
- 3.3 Compilation and installation
- 3.4 Robot aliases
- 3.5 Logs
4. Running Sympa
- 4.1 sympa.pl
- 4.2 INIT script
- 4.3 Stopping Sympa and signals
5. Upgrading Sympa
- 5.1 Incompatible changes
- 5.2 CPAN modules update
- 5.3 Database structure update
- 5.4 Preserving your customizations
- 5.5 Running 2 Sympa versions on a single server
- 5.6 Moving to another server
6. Mail aliases
- 6.1 Robot aliases
- 6.2 List aliases
- 6.3 Alias manager
- 6.4 Virtual domains
7. sympa.conf parameters
- 7.1 Site customization
- 7.2 Directories
- 7.3 System related
- 7.4 Sending related
- 7.5 Quotas
- 7.6 Spool related
- 7.7 Internationalization related
- 7.8 Bounce related
- 7.9 Tuning
- 7.10 Database related
- 7.11 Loop prevention
- 7.12 S/MIME configuration
- 7.13 Antivirus plug-in
8. Sympa and its database
- 8.1 Prerequisites
- 8.2 Installing PERL modules
- 8.3 Creating a sympa DataBase
- 8.4 Setting database privileges
- 8.5 Importing subscribers data
- 8.6 Management of the include cache
- 8.7 Extending database table format
- 8.8 Sympa configuration
9. WWSympa, Sympa's web interface
- 9.1 Organization
- 9.2 Web server setup
- 9.3 wwsympa.conf parameters
- 9.4 MhOnArc
- 9.5 Archiving daemon
- 9.6 Database configuration
- 9.7 Logging in as listmaster
10. Sympa RSS channel
- 10.1 latest_lists
- 10.2 active_lists
- 10.3 latest_arc
- 10.4 latest_d_read
11. Sympa SOAP server
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Web server setup
- 11.3 Sympa setup
- 11.4 The WSDL service description
- 11.5 Client-side programming
12. Authentication
- 12.1 S/MIME and HTTPS authentication
- 12.2 Authentication with email address, uid or alternate email address
- 12.3 Generic SSO authentication
- 12.4 CAS-based authentication
- 12.5 auth.conf
- 12.6 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
- 12.7 Provide a Sympa login form in another application
13. Authorization scenarios
- 13.1 rules specifications
- 13.2 LDAP Named Filters
- 13.3 scenario inclusion
- 13.4 Hidding scenario files
14. virtual host
- 14.1 How to create a virtual host
- 14.2 robot.conf
- 14.3 Managing multiple virtual hosts
15. Interaction between Sympa and other applications
- 15.1 Soap
- 15.2 RSS channel
- 15.3 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
- 15.4 Sharing data with other applications
- 15.5 Subscriber count
16. Customizing Sympa/WWSympa
- 16.1 Template file format
- 16.2 Site template files
- 16.3 Web template files
- 16.4 Internationalization
- 16.5 Topics
- 16.6 Authorization scenarios
- 16.7 Loop detection
- 16.8 Tasks
17. Mailing list definition
- 17.1 Mail aliases
- 17.2 List configuration file
- 17.3 Examples of configuration files
- 17.4 Subscribers file
- 17.5 Info file
- 17.6 Homepage file
- 17.7 Data inclusion file
- 17.8 List template files
- 17.9 Stats file
- 17.10 List model files
- 17.11 Message header and footer
18. List creation, edition and removal
- 18.1 List creation
- 18.2 List families
- 18.3 List creation on command line with sympa.pl
- 18.4 Creating and editing mailing using the web
- 18.5 Removing a list
19. Lists Families
- 19.1 Family concept
- 19.2 Using family
20. List configuration parameters
- 20.1 List description
- 20.2 Data source related
- 20.3 Command related
- 20.4 List tuning
- 20.5 Bounce related
- 20.6 Archive related
- 20.7 Spam protection
- 20.8 Intern parameters
21. Reception mode
- 21.1 Message topics
22. Shared documents
- 22.1 The three kind of operations on a document
- 22.2 The description file
- 22.3 The predefined authorization scenarios
- 22.4 Access control
- 22.5 Shared document actions
- 22.6 Template files
23. Bounce management
- 23.1 VERP
24. Antivirus
25. Using Sympa with LDAP
26. Sympa with S/MIME and HTTPS
- 26.1 Signed message distribution
- 26.2 Use of S/MIME signature by Sympa itself
- 26.3 Use of S/MIME encryption
- 26.4 S/Sympa configuration
- 26.5 Managing certificates with tasks
27. Using Sympa commands
- 27.1 User commands
- 27.2 Owner commands
- 27.3 Moderator commands
28. Internals
- 28.1 mail.pm
- 28.2 List.pm
- 28.3 sympa.pl
- 28.4 Commands.pm
- 28.5 wwsympa.fcgi
- 28.6 report.pm
- 28.7 tools.pl
- 28.8 Message.pm
Index
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