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

6.1.24                            2015-10-07                          SYMPA(8)