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Sympa
Mailing Lists Management Software
version 5.1

Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün, Christophe Wolfhugel,

30 September 2005

Contents
1. Presentation
- 1.1 License
- 1.2 Features
- 1.3 Project directions
- 1.4 History
- 1.5 Authors and credits
- 1.6 Mailing lists and support
2. what does Sympa consist of ?
- 2.1 Organization
- 2.2 Binaries
- 2.3 Configuration files
- 2.4 Spools
- 2.5 Roles and privileges
3. Installing Sympa
- 3.1 Obtaining Sympa, related links
- 3.2 Prerequisites
- 3.3 Compilation and installation
- 3.4 Robot aliases
- 3.5 Logs
- 3.6 INIT script
- 3.7 sympa.pl
4. Upgrading Sympa
- 4.1 Uncompatible changes
- 4.2 CPAN modules update
- 4.3 Database structure update
- 4.4 Preserving your customizations
- 4.5 Running 2 Sympa versions on a single server
5. Mail aliases
- 5.1 Robot aliases
- 5.2 List aliases
- 5.3 Alias manager
- 5.4 Virtual domains
6. sympa.conf parameters
- 6.1 Site customization
- 6.2 Directories
- 6.3 System related
- 6.4 Sending related
- 6.5 Quotas
- 6.6 Spool related
- 6.7 Internationalization related
- 6.8 Bounce related
- 6.9 Priority related
- 6.10 Database related
- 6.11 Loop prevention
- 6.12 S/MIME configuration
- 6.13 Antivirus plug-in
7. Sympa and its database
- 7.1 Prerequisites
- 7.2 Installing PERL modules
- 7.3 Creating a sympa DataBase
- 7.4 Setting database privileges
- 7.5 Importing subscribers data
- 7.6 Management of the include cache
- 7.7 Extending database table format
- 7.8 Sympa configuration
8. WWSympa, Sympa's web interface
- 8.1 Organization
- 8.2 Web server setup
- 8.3 wwsympa.conf parameters
- 8.4 MhOnArc
- 8.5 Archiving daemon
- 8.6 Database configuration
- 8.7 Logging in as listmaster
- 8.8 RSS channel
9. Sympa RSS channel
- 9.1 latest_lists
- 9.2 active_lists
- 9.3 latest_arc
- 9.4 latest_d_read
10. Sympa SOAP server
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Web server setup
- 10.3 Sympa setup
- 10.4 The WSDL service description
- 10.5 Client-side programming
11. Authentication
- 11.1 S/MIME and HTTPS authentication
- 11.2 Authentication with email address, uid or alternate email address
- 11.3 Generic SSO authentication
- 11.4 CAS-based authentication
- 11.5 auth.conf
- 11.6 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
- 11.7 Provide a Sympa login form in another application
12. Authorization scenarios
- 12.1 rules specifications
- 12.2 LDAP Named Filters
- 12.3 scenario inclusion
- 12.4 Hidding scenario files
13. Virtual robot
- 13.1 How to create a virtual robot
- 13.2 robot.conf
- 13.3 Managing multiple virtual robots
14. Customizing Sympa/WWSympa
- 14.1 Template file format
- 14.2 Site template files
- 14.3 Web template files
- 14.4 Sharing data with other applications
- 14.5 Sharing WWSympa authentication with other applications
- 14.6 Internationalization
- 14.7 Topics
- 14.8 Authorization scenarios
- 14.9 Loop detection
- 14.10 Tasks
15. Mailing list definition
- 15.1 Mail aliases
- 15.2 List configuration file
- 15.3 Examples of configuration files
- 15.4 Subscribers file
- 15.5 Info file
- 15.6 Homepage file
- 15.7 Data inclusion file
- 15.8 List template files
- 15.9 Stats file
- 15.10 List model files
- 15.11 Message header and footer
16. List creation, families and list edition
- 16.1 List creation
- 16.2 List families
- 16.3 List creation on command line with sympa.pl
- 16.4 Creating and editing mailing using the web
17. Lists Families
- 17.1 Family concept
- 17.2 Using family
18. List configuration parameters
- 18.1 List description
- 18.2 Data source related
- 18.3 Command related
- 18.4 List tuning
- 18.5 Bounce related
- 18.6 Archive related
- 18.7 Spam protection
- 18.8 Intern parameters
19. Shared documents
- 19.1 The three kind of operations on a document
- 19.2 The description file
- 19.3 The predefined authorization scenarios
- 19.4 Access control
- 19.5 Shared document actions
- 19.6 Template files
20. Bounce management
21. Antivirus
22. Using Sympa with LDAP
23. Sympa with S/MIME and HTTPS
- 23.1 Signed message distribution
- 23.2 Use of S/MIME signature by Sympa itself
- 23.3 Use of S/MIME encryption
- 23.4 S/Sympa configuration
- 23.5 Managing certificates with tasks
24. Using Sympa commands
- 24.1 User commands
- 24.2 Owner commands
- 24.3 Moderator commands
Index
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