sympa-upgrade-outgoing(1)

💖 sympa-upgrade-outgoing 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the little command that moves your old messages out of the dusty database tables and into the shiny new spool. it's called sympa-upgrade-outgoing, and its whole personality is migrating messages in bulk tables. no cap. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sympa upgrade outgoing [ --dry_run | -n ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the lore, babes. on Sympa earlier than 6.2, the messages that were meant for bulk sending got stored into a bulk spool that was based on database tables. very 2010s of them.

but recent releases of Sympa? they store outbound messages into the spool based on filesystem, or they just hand them straight to the Mailer directly. glow-up fr fr. 💅

so what does this program do? it migrates messages with the old format into the appropriate spool. that's it. it's the moving crew for your legacy mail. not me being emotionally attached to old database rows 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --dry_run, -n — queen behaviour honestly: this one shows you what will be done but won't really perform upgrade process. a little dress rehearsal, a little peek behind the curtain, zero commitment. run this first, bestie, trust. 🙈

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

this program exits with status 0 if processing succeeded. otherwise it exits with non-zero status. so 0 = slay, anything else = go read the output, something's up. 💀

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🔥 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🔥

the following site configuration parameters in --CONFIG-- or robot configuration parameters in "robot.conf" are referred to. like, this command is reading these, so keep them cute:

• db_type, db_name etc.
• queuebulk
• sympa_packet_priority
• umask

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sympa_config(5)
• Sympa::Message
• Sympa::Spool::Outgoing

go read those too, iykyk. 🫶

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💜 HISTORY 💜

upgrade_bulk_spool.pl appeared on Sympa 6.2. iconic era.

its function was moved to the sympa upgrade outgoing command line on Sympa 6.2.71b. evolution, periodt. 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and it lives under the name sympa-upgrade-outgoing(1). go migrate those messages, you absolute legend 💖✨