TOPICS.CONF(5)

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version 6.2.80 · 14 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to topics.conf — that's section 5 of the manual, the file-formats corner of the docs, and yeah, it's literally just "Configuration of list topics" ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so topics.conf defines topics — aka categories — of the mailing lists 👑 slay.

TBD 🫶

not me leaving the whole description as TBD bestie... the docs said what they said and we're staying faithful to it fr fr 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • $DEFAULTDIR/topics.conf — the distribution default. Do not edit this one!! 🙈 it's the shipped version, leave it alone, it's not yours to touch 💅
  • $SYSCONFDIR/topics.conf
  • $SYSCONFDIR/<robot name>/topics.conf — these two are the configuration files for the site-wide default and for each robot 🦋

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • wwsympa(8) — go read that one too, it's giving main character energy ⭐

📜 HISTORY 📜

this document was initially written by IKEDA Soji <ikeda@conversion.co.jp> 🫶 iconic of them honestly 🌸

and that's the whole vibe check bestie 💖 this page is sympa version 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19 — no cap, that's the tea, periodt 👑✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • fedora 43: sympa 6.2.80-2.fc43 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND (OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT) AND OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT and (MIT OR GPL-2.0-only)
  • fedora 44: sympa 6.2.80-2.fc44 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND (OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT) AND OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT and (MIT OR GPL-2.0-only)
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms