manual:test [Sympa mailing list server] https://www.sympa.org/manual/test Software version: 5.4 Authors: Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün, David Verdin Edit Sympa is an electronic mailing list manager. It is used to automate list management functions such as su!scription, moderation, archive and shared document management. It also includes management functions " ic "ould normally re#uire a su!stantial amount of "ork %time&consuming and costly for t e list o"ner'. ( ese functions include automatic management of su!scription rene"als, list maintenance, and many ot ers. Sympa manages many different kinds of lists. It includes a "e! interface for all list functions including management. It allo"s a precise definition of eac list feature, such as sender aut orization, moderating process, etc. Sympa defines, for each feature of each list, exactly " o is aut ori)ed to perform t e relevant operations, along "it t e aut entication met od to !e used. +urrently, aut entication can !e !ased on eit er an S,(- From eader, a pass"ord, or an S.,I,E signature. Sympa is also a!le to extract electronic addresses from an /DA- directory or S0/ server and to include t em dynamically in a list. Sympa manages t e dispatching of messages, and makes it possi!le to reduce t e load on t e computer system " ere it is installed. In configurations "it sufficient memory, Sympa is especially "ell adapted to andle large lists: for a list of 23,333 su!scri!ers, it re#uires less t an 4 minutes to send a message to 55 6 of t e su!scri!ers, assuming t at t e net"ork is availa!le %tested on a 733 ,8z, 254 ,9 i7:4 server "it /inu*'. ( is guide covers t e installation, configuration and management of t e current release %5.4' of Sympa ; ttp:..""".sympa.org]. Sympa is free soft"are= you may distri!ute it under t e terms of t e >?@ >eneral -u!lic /icense Version 2 ; ttp:..""".gnu.org.copyleft .gpl.html]. Aou may make and give a"ay ver!atim copies of t e Source form of t is package "it out restriction, provided t at you duplicate all of t e original copyrig t notices and associated disclaimers. Sympa provides all t e !asic features t at any mailing list management soft"are should include. B ile most Sympa features ave t eir e#uivalents in ot er mailing list applications, Sympa is uni#ue in including features in a single soft"are package. ( ese features are1 High speed distribution processing and load control. Sympa can !e tuned to allo" t e system administrator to control t e amount of computer resources used. Its optimized algorit m allo"s: t e use of your preferred S,(- engine, e.g. Sendmail, #mail or -ostfix, tuning of t e maximum num!er of S,(- child processes, grouping of messages according to recipients' domains, and tuning of t e grouping factor, detailed logging= Multilingual user interface. ( e full user.admin interface %mail and "e!' and t e online elp are internationalized. (ranslations are gat ered in standard -O files; Template-based user interface. Every "e! page and service message can !e customized t roug t e TT2 template format= MIME support. Sympa naturally respects ,I,E in t e distri!ution process, and in addition it allo"s list o"ners to configure t eir lists "it "elcome, good!ye and ot er predefined messages using complex ,I,E structures. Dor example, a "elcome message can !e in multipart/alternative format, using text/html, audio/x-wav , or " atever %?ote t at Sympa commands in multipart messages are successfully processed, provided t at one part is text/plain'= ine control of authorizations. ( e rig ts to perform controlled actions %such as sending a message, su!scri!e to a list, etc.' are set using an aut orization scenarios. Any listmaster can define ne" aut orization scenarios in order to complement t e 23 predefined configurations included in t e distri!ution %Example1 for"ard multipart messages to t e list editor, " ile distri!uting 1 sur 148 10/02/2009 11:08 manual:test [Sympa mailing list server] https://www.sympa.org/manual/test ot ers "it out re#uiring any furt er aut orization'= "rivileged operations can !e performed !y list editors or list o"ners %or any ot er user category), as defined in t e list config file or !y t e ro!ot administrator, t e listmaster, defined in t e /etc/sympa.conf glo!al configuration file %a listmaster can also !e defined for a particular virtual ost'. -rivileged operations include t e usual ADD, DELETE and REVIEW commands, " ich can !e aut enticated t roug a uni#ue password or an S.,I,E signature= #eb interface1 WWSympa is a glo!al Be! interface to all Sympa functions %including administration'. It provides: a classification of lists, along "it a search index, an access control to all functions, including t e list of lists %" ich makes BBSympa particularly "ell suited to !e t e main group"are tool "it in an intranet', t e management of shared documents %do"nload, upload, specific access control for eac document', an 8(,/ presentation personalized for each user "it t e list of is. er current su!scriptions, including access to message archives, su!scription options, etc management tools for list managers %!ounce processing, changing of list parameters, moderating incoming messages), tools for t e ro!ot administrator %list creation, glo!al ro!ot configuration'= (o kno" more, refer to BBSympa, SympaCs "e! interface. $%&MS1 t e internal su!scri!er and administrative data structure can !e stored in a data!ase or, for compati!ility "it versions E.x, in text files for su!scri!er data. ( e introduction of data!ases came out of t e WWSympa proFect. ( e data!ase ensures a secure access to shared data. ( e -EG/ data!ase A-I DBI.DBD ena!les interopera!ility "it various GD9,S %,yS0/, S0/ite, -ostgreS0/, Oracle, Sybase'. (o kno" more, refer to Sympa and its data!ase= 'irtual hosting1 a single Sympa installation can provide multiple virtual ro!ots "it !ot email and "e! interface customi)ation %see Virtual ost'= (%A"-based mailing lists1 e&mail addresses can !e retrieved dynamically from a data!ase accepting S0/ #ueries, or from an /DA- directory. In order to maintain reasona!le response times, Sympa retains t e data source in an internal cache controlled !y a ((/ %(ime (o /ive' parameter %see include&ldap&#uery)= (%A" authentication1 via uid and emails stored in /DA- Directories. Alternative email addresses, extracted from a /DA- directory, may !e used to Hunify” su!scriptions %see Aut entication "it email address, uid or alternate email address)= Antivirus scanner1 Sympa extracts attac ments from incoming messages and runs a virus scanner on t em. +urrently "orking "it ,cAfee.uvscan, Dsecure.fsav, Sop os, AV-, (rend ,icro.VirusWall and +lam Antivirus %see Antivirus)= Inclusion of the subscribers of one list among t e su!scri!ers of anot er. ( is is real inclusion, not t e dirty, multi&level cascading one mig t ot er"ise o!tain !y simply Hsu!scri!ing list 9 to list AI $SS channel. )ustom user attributes1 you can customize t e su!scription form !y re#uesting additional informations to future users " en t ey re#uest t eir su!scription. See t e doc regarding t ese custom attri!utes. Sympa is a very active proFect1 check t e release notes. ( us it is not possi!le to maintain multiple documents a!out t e Sympa proFect directions anymore. -lease refer to t e Duture Sympa developments page for information a!out t e proFect directions. Sympa development started from scratch in E555. ( e goal "as to ensure continuity "it t e (@/- list manager, produced partly !y t e initial aut or of Sympa1 + ristop e Bolf ugel. ?e" features "ere re#uired, " ich t e (@/- code "as Fust not a!le to andle. ( e initial version of Sympa !roug t aut entication, t e flexi!le management of commands, ig performances in internal data access, and o!Fect oriented code for easy code maintenance. It took nearly t"o years to produce t e first market releases. Ot er dates: ,ar E555 Internal use of a data!ase %,yS0/', definition of list su!scri!er "it external data source %GD9,S or /DA-'. Oct E555 Sta!le version of BBSympa, introduction of aut orization scenarios. De! 2333 Be! !ounce management. Apr 2333 Archive search engine and message removal. 2 sur 148 10/02/2009 11:08 manual:test [Sympa mailing list server] https://www.sympa.org/manual/test ,ay 2333 /ist creation feature from t e "e! Jan 233E Support for S.,I,E %signing and encryption', list setup t roug t e "e! interface, shared document repository for each list. Dull re"rite of 8(,/ look and feel. Jun 233E Auto&install of aliases at list creation time, antivirus scanner plugin. Jan 2332 Virtual osting, /DA- aut entication. Aug 2337 Automatic !ounce management. Sep 2337 +AS&!ased and S i!!olet &!ased aut entication. Dec 2337 Sympa SOA- server. Aug 2334 + anged for ((2 template format and -O catalogue format. 2335 + anged 8(,/ to K8(,/ L +SS, GSS, list families, ... 2334 full @(D&: support 233M automatic list creation 233: Be! sessions, +ustom user attri!utes If you "ish to contact t e aut ors of Sympa, please use t e address sympa-authors(@)cru.fr.