sympa

mailing list manager with web interface

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  1. Package version
    sympa-6.2.16p6
  2. Maintainer
    The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

SYMPA is an electronic mailing list manager. It is used to automate list
management functions such as subscription, moderation and management of
archives. SYMPA also manages sending of messages to the lists, and makes
it possible to reduce the load on the system. Provided that you have
enough memory on your system, Sympa is especially well adapted for big
lists.

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SYMPA is now installed, and sample configuration files was created in
${SYMPA_HOME}${SYSCONFDIR}/sympa.conf

Basic configuration
===================

You should first edit them to suit your needs, at least http_host,
domain, listmaster, db_type, db_host, db_user, db_passwd, wwsympa_url
settings in ${SYMPA_HOME}${SYSCONFDIR}/sympa.conf, and then configure the needed
database. For SQLite, you need to manually create the database file and make
sure _sympa user can write to it.

You should also install the corresponding p5-DBD-{mysql,SQLite,Pg} module.
Moreover, p5-ldap package is needed if you plan to use LDAP features
and p5-SOAP-Lite package is needed if you plan to use sympa_soap_server.

WWSympa configuration
=====================

To enable WWSympa within nginx once wwsympa.fcgi has been spawned,
a sample configuration for nginx follows.

----<>----<>----<>----<>----<>----
server {
server_name sympa.example.com;

location /static-sympa {
alias /var/www/sympa/;
}


location / {
fastcgi_pass localhost:1026;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/sympa)(.+)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi;
}
}
----<>----<>----<>----<>----<>----

With that, WWSympa should be available at http://sympa.example.com/sympa/

Startup/Shutdown configuration
==============================

You can control sympa/wwsympa.fcgi daemons using the rc scripts in
${RCDIR}.

Mail aliases configuration
==========================

Add systemwide robot aliases to your aliases file:

sympa: "| ${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/queue sympa@domain.tld"
listmaster: "| ${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/queue listmaster@domain.tld"
bounce+*: "| ${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/bouncequeue sympa@domain.tld"
abuse-feedback-report: "| ${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/bouncequeue sympa@domain.tld"
sympa-request: postmaster
sympa-owner: postmaster

if you're using sendmail, you should declare ${SYMPA_HOME}/sympa_aliases
as an additional alias file in your sendmail.mc :

define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/mail/aliases,${SYMPA_HOME}/sympa_aliases')dnl

If you're using postfix, edit main.cf and set :

alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:${SYMPA_HOME}/sympa_aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:${SYMPA_HOME}/sympa_aliases

Security considerations
=======================

Note that the following binaries are installed with particular modes/owner/group :
- the following are 4755 _sympa:_sympa
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/bouncequeue
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/familyqueue
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/queue
- the following are 6755 _sympa:_sympa
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi
- the following is 4750 root:_sympa
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/sympa/sympa_newaliases-wrapper

For the various set-uid sympa wrappers to work fine, you have to make
sure ${SYMPA_HOME} is in a partition mounted without nosuid.

Now refer to http://www.sympa.org/manual/index for more information.

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