phplist is a mailing list and newsletter manager that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release fixes a local file include vulnerability that was reported. It is highly recommended to upgrade from any previous version to this one.
SYMPA(8) sympa 6.1.11 SYMPA(8)NAME
sympa, sympa.pl - A Modern Mailing List Manager
SYNOPSIS
sympa [ -d, --debug ] [ -f, --file=another.sympa.conf ]
[ -k, --keepcopy=directory ]
[ -l, --lang=catalog ] [ -m, --mail ]
[ -h, --help ] [ -v, --version ]
[ --import=listname ] [ --close_list=list[@robot]][ --purge_list=list[@robot]]
[ --lowercase ] [ --make_alias_file ]
[ --dump=listname | ALL]
DESCRIPTION
Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can cope with big lists (200,000 subscribers) and comes with a complete
(user and admin) Web interface. It is internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, and chinese locales. A scripting language
allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa
provides S/MIME and HTTPS based authentication and encryption. Sympa is a modern mailing-list manager. It supports a lot of useful
features.
OPTIONS -d, --debug
Enable debug mode.
-f, --file=another.sympa.conf
Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.
-k, --keepcopy=directory
This option tells Sympa to keep a copy of every incoming message, instead of deleting them. `directory' is the directory to store
messages.
-l, --lang=catalog
Set this option to use a language catalog for Sympa. The corresponding catalog file `catalogue'.cat must be located in
/usr/lib/sympa/nls directory.
-m, --mail
Sympa will log calls to sendmail, including recipients. This option is useful for keeping track of each mail sent (log files may grow
faster though).
-h, --help
Print this help message.
-v, --version
Print the version number.
With the following options sympa.pl will run in batch mode :
--import=list
Import subscribers in the list. Data are read from STDIN. The imported data should contain one entry per line : the first field is an
email address, the second (optional) field is the free form name. Fields are spaces-separated.
Sample :
## Data to be imported
## email gecos
john.steward@some.company.com John - accountant
mary.blacksmith@another.company.com Mary - secretary
--close_list=list[@robot]
Close the list (changing its status to closed), remove aliases and remove subscribers from DB (a dump is created in the list directory
to allow restoring the list)
--purge_list=list[@robot]
Remove the list (remove archive, configuration files, users and owners in admin table. Restore is not possible after this operation.
--lowercase
Lowercases email addresses in database.
--make_alias_file
Create an aliases file in /tmp/ with all list aliases. It uses the list_aliases.tpl template.
--dump=listname | ALL
Dumps subscribers of for `listname' list or all lists. Subscribers are dumped in subscribers.db.dump.
FILES
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf main configuration file.
/var/spool/sympa/sympa.pid this file contains the process ID of sympa.pl.
AVAILABILITY
Latest version of Sympa is available from http://www.sympa.org.
MORE DOCUMENTATION
The full documentation in HTML and PostScript formats can be found in /usr/share/doc/sympa/html/.
The mailing lists (with web archives) can be accessed at http://listes.cru.fr/wws/lists/informatique/sympa.
AUTHORS
Serge Aumont
Comite Reseau des Universites
Olivier Salauen
Comite Reseau des Universites
Contact authors at <sympa-authors@cru.fr>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright X 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001 Comite Reseau des Universites
Copyright X 1997,1998,1999 Institut Pasteur & Christophe Wolfhugel
You may distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>)
BUGS
Report bugs to <sympa-dev@cru.fr>.
SEE ALSO sympa.conf(5), archived(8), bounced(8), sendmail(8), alias_manager(8)6.1.11 2014-04-18 SYMPA(8)