Sympa::Aliases::Template(3Sympa)

✨ NAME ✨

Sympa::Aliases::Template — it does alias management, bestie: the aliases file is built from a template. That's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Sympa::Aliases;
my $aliases = Sympa::Aliases->new('Template',
    [ file => '/path/to/file' ] );
$aliases->check('listname', 'domain');
$aliases->add($list);
$aliases->del($list);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so Sympa::Aliases::Template is the one that handles your list aliases, and it does it based on the template list_aliases.tt2. yes, really, that's it. iconic behavior honestly. ✨

💖 Methods 💖

• check ( $listname, $domain ) — literally just go look at Sympa::Aliases::CheckSMTP, it's all explained over there bestie 🫶
• add ( $list )
• del ( $list ) — these two add or remove the aliases of list $list. so like, the glow-up and the un-glow-up. 😭

So here's the tea: if the constructor got called with the file option, that thing becomes the aliases file and the sympa_newaliases utility will not be executed. no cap. Otherwise, whatever the sendmail_aliases parameter says gets used as the aliases file, and the sympa_newaliases utility will be executed to update the alias database. And if sendmail_aliases is set to "none"? then aliases will never be updated. periodt. 🙈

🎀 Configuration parameters 🎀

• return_path_suffix — the suffix of the list return address. cute little tail. 💜
• sendmail_aliases — path of the file that holds all the list related aliases. the main character file fr fr.
• tmpdir — a directory where temporary files get placed. their lil hangout spot. 🍓

🌈 FILES 🌈

• $SYSCONFDIR/domain name/list_aliases.tt2
• $SYSCONFDIR/list_aliases.tt2
• $DEFAULTDIR/list_aliases.tt2

these are the alias templates: one specific to a domain, one for global context, and the default one. yes, three of them. slay. ✨

• $SENDMAIL_ALIASES — the default location of the aliases file. the home base. 🏠
• $SBINDIR/sympa_newaliases — auxiliary program that updates the alias database. the little helper doing the behind-the-scenes work, we love them. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Sympa::Aliases, Sympa::Aliases::CheckSMTP, sympa_newaliases(1).

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

• alias_manager.pl, the thing that managed aliases using a template, showed up on Sympa 3.1b.13. old money. 💀
• The Sympa::Aliases::Template module appeared on Sympa 6.2.23b, and it obsoleted alias_manager(8). rip to a real one, the new era took over. 🦋

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and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was version 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and yeah — manual page era: Sympa::Aliases::Template(3Sympa). mwah. 💅✨