UPGRADE_SEND_SPOOL(1)

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version 6.2.70 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu noble

💖 UPGRADE_SEND_SPOOL — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the upgrade_send_spool page (also living its double life as upgrade_send_spool.pl, we love a two-name icon) and it's part of the sympa manual, section 1. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

upgrade_send_spool.pl [ --dry_run ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional flag, no drama. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like. back in the day — Sympa earlier than 6.2 — when WWSympa sent messages, it yeeted them into the msg spool with a special checksum. cute, iconic, very of its time.

but then Sympa and WWSympa grew up (glow-up era ✨) and now they inject outbound messages into the outgoing spool instead, or just send them by Mailer directly. no middleman, no weird checksum, periodt.

so what's this program for? it migrates messages with the old format into the appropriate spools. basically it's the friend who goes back to the group chat and moves all the old plans into the new calendar. 🗓️✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --dry_run — it shows you what it would do but does NOT actually run the upgrade process. it's the "let me just look at the menu" of flags. peek, don't eat. 🙈

💀 RETURN VALUE 💀

  • exits with status 0 if processing succeeded 🎉
  • otherwise exits with a non-zero status (aka something went sideways, no cap)

🧚 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🧚

these are the site configuration parameters it reads from:

/etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf
  • cookie — (obsoleted by Sympa 6.2.61b) — yeah it's giving legacy, we still list it tho 👑
  • queue
  • umask

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

upgrade_send_spool.pl appeared on Sympa 6.2. a whole origin story. 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was sympa 6.2.70, dated 2026-07-13 💜 go forth and migrate those spools responsibly. mwah 🎀✨💖

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