sympa-upgrade(1)

💖 sympa-upgrade — aka movin' your Sympa to a whole new era 💖

okay bestie so this is the sympa-upgrade page from the sympa manual, and it's literally the glow-up guide for your Sympa install ✨ upgrading is the whole vibe, let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

sympa-upgrade — Upgrade Sympa 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

"sympa upgrade" [ "--from="version_X ] [ "--to="version_Y ]

"sympa upgrade" sub-command ...

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So here's the tea 🍓: if you don't specify any sub-command, it just runs the Sympa maintenance script and upgrades you from version X to version Y. That's it. That's the whole thing. Main character behavior fr fr 👑

Wanna know about the sub-commands that are available? Keep scrolling bestie, they're right down there ⬇️

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🦋 SUB-COMMANDS 🦋

Currently these sub-commands are the ones on the menu ✨ and if you want the deets on any one of them, you run:

"sympal.pl help upgrade" sub-command

• "sympa upgrade incoming ... — upgrades the messages chillin' in the incoming spool 📥
• "sympa upgrade outgoing ... — migrating messages in the bulk tables 📤
• "sympa upgrade password ... — upgrading password in database 🔐 (yes, that's a real one, the quotes are just being quirky 😭)
• "sympa upgrade shared ... — encode file names in shared repositories 🗂️
• "sympa upgrade webfont — upgrading font in web templates 🖋️

no cap, those sub-command names are reproduced exactly as they appear — even the wonky quote situation — so copy them character for character, bestie 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! 💜 go forth and sympa upgrade your lil heart out, you've got this 🌈

this slice of documentation came from sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅✨🎀