AUTOMATIC_LIS...CRIPTION.CONF(5)

💖 automatic_lists_description.conf — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for automatic_lists_description.conf(5). it ships with sympa 6.2.80 and honestly it's giving "we wrote the file name and then went to get boba" energy, but we move. 🧋

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✨ NAME ✨

automatic_lists_description.conf — a whole description of automatic list creation with web interface 🦋

like. that's the name. that's what it is. slay.

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📖 DESCRIPTION 📖

so <pink>automatic_lists_description.conf</pink> defines the criteria for creating lists automatically through the web interface. that's the whole thing it does. it's the rulebook for "surprise, you have a new list, you're welcome". 💅

TBD.

no literally — that's it. that's the entire description. the doc author said "TBD" and dipped. iconic behaviour honestly 🙈. we're not adding anything else because there isn't anything else, and I refuse to make up lore. if the original doesn't know, neither do we. periodt.

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🗂️ FILES 🗂️

these are the places this file can live, and you're gonna wanna pay attention because the paths are long:

• $SYSCONFDIR/families/<family name>/automatic_lists_description.conf
• $SYSCONFDIR/<robot name>/families/<family name>/automatic_lists_description.conf

and what are these exactly? 🎀 files describing a family — one for the site-wide default, and one for each robot. iykyk.

heads up bestie: <family name> and <robot name> are placeholders, so swap in the real names. literally don't copy-paste the angle brackets, the shell will simply not vibe with that. 😭

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these if you wanna go deeper, and you should, because they're the main characters here:

• wwsympa(8)
• Sympa::Family

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📜 HISTORY 📜

this document was initially written by IKEDA Soji <ikeda@conversion.co.jp>. thank you soji, we appreciate you fr fr 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie. certified short, certified mysterious, certified TBD. this came to you from sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19 — okay love you, bye, go create some lists 💖✨🌸🦋👑⭐