ALIAS_MANAGER(8)

💖 ALIAS_MANAGER(8) — the sympa 6.2.80 era 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the alias_manager page, aka alias_manager.pl, aka the little helper who manages your Sympa aliases ✨ (and who, ngl, is officially obsoleted) 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

alias_manager, alias_manager.pl — manage Sympa aliases (obsoleted, unfortunately 💀)

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💅 OBSOLETED 💅

so like. alias_manager.pl was obsoleted as of Sympa 6.2.24, and bestie, it will be removed in the future 😭 that's not a vibe, that's a fact.

if you wanna manage aliases based on template, the recommended glow-up is to set "alias_manager Template" in sympa.conf or robot.conf. do that instead, fr fr 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

"alias_manager.pl" "add" listname domain [ file ]

"alias_manager.pl" "del" listname domain [ file ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Alias_manager is the program that helps you install aliases for newly created lists 💖 and delete aliases for closed lists 💔. she's basically the list lifecycle's backstage crew, no cap.

a lil warning though: alias management only actually happens if it was set up in /etc/sympa/sympa.conf — that's the sendmail_aliases configuration parameter, keep it in mind 🌸

and if you're an admin who uses MTA functionalities to manage aliases — like virtual_regexp and transport_regexp with postfix — you can turn alias management off completely by setting the sendmail_aliases configuration parameter to none. iconic, honestly ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• add listname domain [ file ] — adds the whole set of aliases for the mailing list listname in the domain domain. go off 👑
• del listname domain [ file ] — removes the whole set of aliases for the mailing list listname in the domain domain. bye bestie 💅

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• $SENDMAIL_ALIASES — the sendmail aliases file.

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🌈 DOCUMENTATION 🌈

the full documentation, in HTML form, is living over at <https://www.sympa.community/manual/> 📚

and the mailing lists (with web archives, yes, the whole archive situation) are at <https://www.sympa.community/community/lists.html> 💌

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💜 HISTORY 💜

this program was originally written by:

• Serge Aumont — Comité Réseau des Universités
• Olivier Salaün — Comité Réseau des Universités

and this manual page was initially written by Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@IDEALX.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system 🫶

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⭐ LICENSE ⭐

you may distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. for more details, see the README file 📖

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. a copy of the license can be found under <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html> ✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

report bugs to the Sympa bug tracker. see <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues> — they're tracking, bestie 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Sympa::Aliases::Template

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lowkey important reminder: this whole thing is obsoleted, so if you're building something new, go the template route and set "alias_manager Template" in sympa.conf or robot.conf 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! this one shipped as part of sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19 — periodt 💅✨🦋