SYMPA_TOC(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, sit down, hydrate, this is sympa_toc 🙈 — and its whole personality is Documentation on Sympa - Table of Contents. That's the vibe. That's the job. It's literally the table of contents for all the Sympa docs, and honestly? iconic. Manual page SYMPA_TOC(1), section 1, no notes 💅.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. Sympa. Let me tell you about her ✨

Sympa is a scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. Like, she can cope with big lists — we are not talking your little group chat, we're talking 200,000 subscribers, fr fr 😭. And she comes with a complete (user and admin) Web interface. Both. She's giving range.

She's internationalized too 🌍 and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, and chinese locales — multilingual queen behavior. There's a scripting language that lets you extend the behavior of commands, so you can make her do your little custom things 🪄

She can also be linked to an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. And she provides S/MIME and HTTPS based authentication and encryption 🔐. Sympa is a modern mailing-list manager. She supports a lot of useful features. Periodt.

Below is the list of documentation of Sympa 👇 (this is the whole point of this manpage, so pay attention bestie)

📚 Reference manual

• Sympa Administration Manual — <https://www.sympa.community/manual/>. the one, the only, the big book 🫶

🛠️ Daemons

okay so these are the little background guys that keep everything running, and they truly never sleep 💀

• archived(8) — Mailing List Archiving Daemon for Sympa 💾
• bounced(8) — Mailing List Bounce Processing Daemon for Sympa 📬
• bulk(8) — Daemon for submitting messages to SMTP engine 📤
• sympa_automatic(8) — Automatic list creation daemon ✨
• sympa_msg(8) — Daemon to handle incoming messages 📥
• task_manager(8) — Daemon to process periodical Sympa tasks ⏰

🌐 Web interface

• sympa_soap_server(8) — Sympa SOAP server 🧼 (not that kind of soap but ok)
• wwsympa(8) — WWSympa, Sympa's web interface 🖥️

🐚 Shell Interface

Administration tools

• sympa(1) — Command line utility to manage Sympa ⌨️
• sympa_newaliases(1) — Alias database maintenance 🗂️

🧰 Auxiliary Programs

some of these are a mystery even to me. TBD energy. we respect it 🙈

• alias_manager(8) — Manage Sympa aliases (Obsoleted) ⚠️ (yes, obsoleted, she's retired, do not come for her)
• ldap_alias_manager(8) — TBD.
• mysql_alias_manager(8) — TBD.
• queue(8), bouncequeue(8), familyqueue(8) — TBD.
• sympa_newaliases-wrapper(8), sympa_soap_server-wrapper(8), wwsympa-wrapper(8) — TBD.

⚙️ Configuration files

• auth.conf(5) — Configuration of authentication mechanisms for web interface of Sympa 🔑
• charset.conf(5) — Configuration file for legacy character set support by Sympa 🔤
• edit_list.conf(5) — Configuration of privileges to edit list configuration 📝
• ldap_alias_manager.conf(5) — Configuration of LDAP alias management 🌳
• nrcpt_by_domain.conf(5) — Grouping factor for SMTP sessions by recipient domains 📊
• sympa_config(5) — Configuration files for Sympa mailing list manager 🧾
• sympa_scenario(5) — Authorization scenario 🎭
• topics.conf(5) — Configuration of list topics 🏷️

🔮 Internals

for the lore girlies only, iykyk 🤫

• Sympa::Internals(3) — List of Sympa internal modules 🧩
• sympa_database(5) — Structure of Sympa core database 🗄️

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📦 AVAILABILITY 📦

Latest version of Sympa is available from <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases> — go get her 🏃‍♀️💨

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📖 MORE DOCUMENTATION 📖

• The full documentation in HTML format can be found in <https://www.sympa.community/manual/> 🌸
• The mailing lists (with web archives) can be accessed at <https://www.sympa.community/community/lists.html> 💌

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to Sympa bug tracker 💀 (they want to know, genuinely, this is a safe space). See <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues>.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

...and that's it bestie, this section is literally empty 😭 nothing here, no references, we simply ran out of things to link. main character silence. 🫶

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