ARCHIVED(8)

👑 ARCHIVED — the Sympa mailing list archiving daemon (that's archived(8) btw)

okay bestie, sit DOWN. this is archived, aka archived.pl, and it's the Mailing List Archiving Daemon for Sympa. come with me, i gotchu 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

"archived.pl" [ "--foreground" ] [ "--debug" ]

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. two optional flags and she's off 🌸

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so archived is this program that permanently (yes, forever, she's committed) scans the archive spool and feeds the web archives, converting messages into HTML format and linking them all up like a little matchmaker 🔗✨

the original mails are also kept — they live in the arctxt/ directory — so that archives can be rebuilt later. keeping receipts, iconic behaviour honestly.

the HTML conversion? that's handled by the MHonArc program. not us, not our problem, she's just the messenger 💁‍♀️

archives get accessed via wwsympa.fcgi and sympa_msg.pl, which are the ones doing the access control. so, heads up:

do NOT put archives in a public web directory. that's not a vibe check you want to fail, fr fr 🚫

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--). summary below, bestie:

• -F, --foreground — do not detach the TTY. she stays right here with you, holding your hand 🫶
• -f, --config=file — force archived to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf. yes you CAN pick a different one, it's giving options 💁‍♀️
• -d, --debug — run the program in debug mode. for when you need to see everything 👀
• -h, --help — print this help message. the classic. the icon. the blueprint 🌈

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📁 FILES 📁

• $SPOOLDIR/outgoing/ — the outgoing Sympa directory.
• $DEFAULTDIR/mhonarc_rc.tt2 — the template of the MHonArc resource file.
  • 🗒️ btw, a little lore drop: mhonarc-ressources.tt2 was replaced with mhonarc_rc.tt2 on Sympa 6.2.61b.1. she got a glow-up and a new name, periodt.
• /etc/sympa/sympa.conf — the Sympa configuration file.
• $PIDDIR/archived.pid — this file contains the process ID of archived.pl. that's her lil name tag 🏷️

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📚 MORE DOCUMENTATION 📚

the full documentation in HTML format is living happily at <https://www.sympa.community/manual/>.

and the mailing lists (WITH web archives, obviously) can be accessed at <https://www.sympa.community/community/lists.html>.

go read. i'll wait. not me being a whole study buddy 😭

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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. legends only, honestly 👑

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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>.

okay that was a lot of legal words but we read all of them, no skimming, we're responsible in this household 💜

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💀 BUGS 💀

report bugs to the Sympa bug tracker. see <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues>.

(not me telling you to go file an issue. do it. it's self care. ✨)

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

sympa_msg(8), bounced(8), mhonarc(1), sympa_config(5).

Sympa::Spindle::ProcessArchive.

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and that's the whole page babes!! 🦋 this was sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19 — so yeah, remember that version number and date, they're basically her birthday 🎂 mwah, go archive something 💖