MOD2HTML(1)

💖 MOD2HTML(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mod2html page from the sympa 6.2.70 manual — yes, the sympa manual, that's the vibe, we're in it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

mod2html, mod2html.pl — literally generates the HTML view of messages that are waiting to be moderated 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mod2html.pl

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no args, no flags, just send it 🌸

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the lore 📜 back in the day — like, until Sympa release 3.4.3.1 — the HTML view of moderated messages was made by wwsympa.fcgi, whenever it was needed. very "someone else will handle it" energy 🙈

now it's made by the sympa_msg.pl daemon, right when the message gets received. glow-up fr fr ✨

and this script? this script will create all the missing HTML files. all of them. every single one that's not there yet. it's giving completionist 💅

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✨ CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS ✨

these are the site configuration parameters in /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf that it's gonna look at, bestie:

• mhonarc — the path to the MHonArc mail-to-HTML converter.
• queuemod — the directory for the moderation spool.
• viewmail_dir — the directory holding the HTML file that MHonArc generates when it's displaying messages that aren't archives.

lowkey important: it refers to these, so if your config is a mess, this script is gonna have a bad time 😭

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✨ HISTORY ✨

• mod2html.pl first appeared on Sympa 3.4.4. iconic debut, no notes 👑
• 6.2a.32 or earlier: the HTML view got stored into the moderation spool.
• 6.2b: nope, we moved on — now it lives in a dedicated directory, and that directory is specified by the viewmail_dir parameter. character development 🦋

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the sympa 6.2.70 manual, dated 2026-07-13 — thanks for reading, ily, go touch some grass 🌱💜