sympa-dump(1)

💖 sympa-dump(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to sympa-dump(1) — the little helper from the sympa fam that goes and dumps out the users of your lists. no cap, it's the chill one.

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✨ NAME ✨

sympa-dump_ — dump users of the lists 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

"sympa dump" "--roles="role[","role...] list"@"domain|"*"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so basically: it dumps the users of one list, or of all the lists. that's the whole vibe. 🌈

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💅 the --roles situation

--roles is where you say who you wanna yank out. it can be any of these:

• member — the subscribers 👑
• owner — the owners 🎀
• editor — the moderators 🙈

and you can ask for any combination of them by separating each one with a comma (,). easy peasy.

if you don't say anything at all? it defaults to member and only member. so member is the main character unless you tell it otherwise. periodt. ⭐

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🧚 where do the peeps go?

the users get dumped into files named role + .dump — so like, literally role".dump" — and they land in each list directory. one per list, one per role. cute and organized. 💖

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⚠️ note bestie, this one matters: on Sympa prior to 6.2.31b.1, subscribers were dumped into the subscribers.db.dump file, and owners and moderators could not be dumped at all. so if you're on an ancient version, that's why it's giving nothing. 😭

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👀 see also

sympa restore — the other half of this duo. they're a matched set, iykyk. 🌸

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<h2>🎀 that's a wrap 🎀</h2>

this page is serving sympa version 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, straight from the sympa-dump(1) manual. slay, go dump responsibly, mwah 💅✨🦋