NAME

sympa, sympa.pl - Command line utility to manage Sympa

SYNOPSIS

sympa command [ general options… ] …

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: On overview of Sympa documentation see sympa_toc(1).

sympa is invoked from command line then performs various administration tasks.

GENERAL OPTIONS

sympa may run with following options in general.

• -d, --debug

  Enable debug mode.

• -f, --config=file

  Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.

• -l, --lang=lang

  Set this option to use a language for Sympa. The corresponding gettext catalog file must be located in $LOCALEDIR directory.

• --log_level=level

  Sets Sympa log level.

• -m, --mail

  Enable SMTP logging.

• --noout

  Skip output to the console except for fatal error messages.

COMMANDS

Currently following commands are available. To see detail of each command, run ‘sympa help command’.

• “sympa add”

  Add users to the list

• “sympa bouncers”

  Manipulate list bounced users

• “sympa check”

  Check environment

• “sympa close”

  Close a list or the lists belonging to a family

• “sympa config”

  Manipulate configuration of Sympa

• “sympa copy”

  Copy the list

• “sympa create”

  Create a list

• “sympa del”

  Delete users from the list

• “sympa dump”

  Dump users of the lists

• “sympa export_list”

  TBD

• “sympa help”

  Display help information about Sympa CLI

• “sympa include”

  Update inclusion

• “sympa instantiate”

  Instantiate the lists in a family

• “sympa lowercase”

  Lowercase email addresses in database

• “sympa make_alias_file”

  Create aliases file

• “sympa md5_digest”

  Output a MD5 digest

• “sympa move”

  Move or copy the list

• “sympa open”

  Open the list

• “sympa rebuildarc”

  Rebuild the archives of the list

• “sympa reload_list_config”

  Recreate config cache of the lists

• “sympa restore”

  Restore users of the lists

• “sympa review”

  Show subscribers of the list

• “sympa send_digest”

  Send digest

• “sympa set”

  Set properties of the users of the list

• “sympa show_pending_lists”

  Show pending lists

• “sympa sync_list_db”

  Synchronize database cache of the lists

• “sympa test”

  Test the functions of Sympa

• “sympa update”

  Modify the existing list in the family

• “sympa upgrade”

  Upgrade Sympa

• “sympa upgrade_config_location”

  TBD

• “sympa user”

  Manipulate list users

• “sympa version”

  Print the version number of Sympa

DESCRIPTION FOR EARLIER VERSION

NOTE: Description in this section is kept for compatibility to earlier versions. Run sympa help or see sympa(1) to see recent conventions.

Synopsis

sympa.pl [ -d, --debug ] [ -f, --file=another.sympa.conf ] [ -l, --lang=lang ] [ -m, --mail ] [ -h, --help ] [ -v, --version ]

[ --add=list@domain [–role=role] [–quiet] [–notify] [–force] ] [ --del=list@domain [–role=role] [–quiet] [–notify] [–force] ] [ --open_list=list[@robot] [–notify] ] [ --close_list=list[@robot] ] [ --purge_list=list[@robot] ] [ --lowercase ] [ --make_alias_file ] [ --dump_users --list=list@domain|ALL [ --role=roles ] ] [ --restore_users --list=list@domain|ALL [ --role=roles ] ] [ --show_pending_lists=robot ] [ --rebuildarc=list[@robot] ]

Options

sympa.pl may run with following options in general.

• -d, --debug

  Enable debug mode.

• -f, --config=file

  Force Sympa to use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.

• -l, --lang=lang

  Set this option to use a language for Sympa. The corresponding gettext catalog file must be located in $LOCALEDIR directory.

• --log_level=level

  Sets Sympa log level.

With the following options sympa.pl will run in batch mode:

• --add=list@domain [ --role=role ] [ --quiet ] [ --notify ] [ --force ]

  Add email(s) from the list. Data are read from standard input. The data should contain one email address per line.

  Sample:

    ## emails to be added
    john.steward@some.company.com       John Steward
    mary.blacksmith@another.company.com Mary Blacksmith
  

  Note: This option was added on Sympa 6.2.67b.2.

  New command line format:

  • sympa add [ --role=role ] [ --quiet ] [ --notify ] [ --force ] list@domain

• --add_list=family_name --robot=robot_name --input_file=/path/to/file.xml

  Add the list described by the file.xml under robot_name, to the family family_name.

  New command line format:

  • sympa create --input_file=/path/to/file.xml family_name@@robot_name

• --change_user_email --current_email=current --new_email=new

  Changes a user email address in all Sympa databases (subscriber_table, list config, etc) for all virtual robots.

  New command line format:

  • sympa user move current new

• --close_family=family_name --robot=robot_name

  Close lists of family_name family under robot_name.

  New command line format:

  • sympa close family_name@@robot_name

• --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)

  New command line format:

  • sympa close list[@robot]

• --conf_2_db

  Deprecated. Load sympa.conf and each robot.conf into database.

  New command line format:

  None.

• --copy_list=listname@robot --new_listname=newlistname --new_listrobot=newrobot

  Copy a list.

  New command line format:

  • sympa move --mode=copy listname@robot newlistname@newrobot
  • sympa copy listname@robot newlistname@newrobot

• --create_list --robot=robot_name --input_file=/path/to/file.xml

  Create a list with the XML file under robot robot_name.

  New command line format:

  • sympa create --input_file=/path/to/file.xml robot_name

• --del=list@domain [ --role=role ] [ --quiet ] [ --notify ] [ --force ]

  Delete email(s) from the list. Data are read from standard input. The data should contain one email address per line.

  Sample:

    ## emails to be deleted
    john.steward@some.company.com
    mary.blacksmith@another.company.com
  

  Note: This options was added on Sympa 6.2.67b.2.

  New command line format:

  • sympa del [ --role=role ] [ --quiet ] [ --notify ] [ --force ] list@domain

• --dump=list@domain|ALL

  Obsoleted option. Use --dump_users.

• --dump_users --list=list@domain|ALL [ --role=roles ]

  Dumps users of a list or all lists.

  --role may specify member, owner, editor or any of them separated by comma (,). Only member is chosen by default.

  Users are dumped in files role.dump in each list directory.

  Note: On Sympa prior to 6.2.31b.1, subscribers were dumped in subscribers.db.dump file, and owners and moderators could not be dumped.

  See also --restore_users.

  Note: This option replaced --dump on Sympa 6.2.34.

  New command line format:

  • sympa dump [ --roles=roles ] list@domain
  • sympa dump [ --roles=roles ] "*"

• --health_check

  Check if sympa.conf, robot.conf of virtual robots and database structure are correct. If any errors occur, exits with non-zero status.

  New command line format:

  • sympa check

• --import=list@dom

  Deprecated. Use --add instead.

• --instantiate_family=family_name --robot=robot_name --input_file=/path/to/file.xml [ --close_unknown ] [ --quiet ]

  Instantiate family_name lists described in the file.xml under robot_name. The family directory must exist; automatically close undefined lists in a new instantiation if –close_unknown is specified; do not print report if --quiet is specified.

  New command line format:

  • sympa instantiate --input_file=/path/to/file.xml [ --close_unknown ] [ --quiet ] family_name@@robot_name

• --lowercase

  Lowercases email addresses in database.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --make_alias_file [ --robot robot ]

  Create an aliases file in /tmp/ with all list aliases. It uses the list_aliases.tt2 template (useful when list_aliases.tt2 was changed).

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --md5_encode_password

  Rewrite password in user_table of database using MD5 fingerprint. YOU CAN’T UNDO unless you save this table first.

  Note that this option was obsoleted. Use sympa upgrade password.

• --modify_list=family_name --robot=robot_name --input_file=/path/to/file.xml

  Modify the existing list installed under the robot robot_name and that belongs to the family family_name. The new description is in the file.xml.

  New command line format:

  • sympa update --input_file=/path/to/file.xml family_name@@robot_name

• --open_list=list[@robot] [ --notify ]

  Restore the closed list (changing its status to open), add aliases and restore users to DB (dump files in the list directory are imported).

  The --notify is optional. If present, the owner(s) of the list will be notified.

  New command line format:

  • sympa open [ --notify ] list[@robot]

• --purge_list=list[@robot]

  Remove the list (remove archive, configuration files, users and owners in admin table. Restore is not possible after this operation.

  New command line format:

  • sympa close --mode=purge list[@robot]

• --show_pending_lists=robot

  Print all pending lists for the robot, with information.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --rebuildarc=list[@robot]

  Rebuild the archives of the list.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --reload_list_config [ --list=mylist@mydom ] [ --robot=mydom ]

  Recreates all config.bin files or cache in list_table. You should run this command if you edit authorization scenarios. The list and robot parameters are optional.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --rename_list=listname@robot --new_listname=newlistname --new_listrobot=newrobot

  Renames a list or move it to another virtual robot.

  New command line format:

  • sympa move listname@robot newlistname@newrobot

• --send_digest [ --keep_digest ]

  Send digest right now. If --keep_digest is specified, stocked digest will not be removed.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --restore_users --list=list@domain|ALL [ --role=roles ]

  Restore users from files dumped by --dump_users.

  Note: This option was added on Sympa 6.2.34.

  New command line format:

  • sympa restore [ --roles=roles ] list@domain
  • sympa restore [ --roles=roles ] "*"

• --sync_include=listname@robot [ --role=role ]

  Trigger update of the list users included from data sources.

  New command line format:

  • sympa include [ --role=role ] listname@robot

• --sync_list_db [ --list=listname@robot ]

  Syncs filesystem list configs to the database cache of list configs, optionally syncs an individual list if specified.

  New command line format:

  TBD.

• --test_database_message_buffer

  Note: This option was deprecated.

  Test the database message buffer size.

• --upgrade [ --from=X ] [ --to=Y ]

  Runs Sympa maintenance script to upgrade from version X to version Y.

  New command line format:

  • sympa upgrade [ <–from=>X ] [ --to=Y ]

• --upgrade_shared [ --list=X ] [ --robot=Y ]

  Note: This option was deprecated. See sympa upgrade shared command line.

  Rename files in shared.

  New command line format:

  • sympa upgrade shared [ --fix_qencode ] listname@robot | “*”

With following options sympa.pl will print some information and exit.

• -h, --help

  Print this help message.

• --md5_digest=password

  Output a MD5 digest of a password (useful for SOAP client trusted application).

• -v, --version

  Print the version number.

End of description for earlier version.

FILES

/etc/sympa/sympa.conf main configuration file.

SEE ALSO

sympa_toc(1).

HISTORY

sympa.pl was originally written by:

• Serge Aumont

  Comité Réseau des Universités

• Olivier Salaün

  Comité Réseau des Universités

As of Sympa 6.2b.4, it was split into three programs: sympa.pl command line utility, sympa_automatic.pl daemon and sympa_msg.pl daemon.

As of Sympa 6.2.68, sympa.pl was renamed to sympa and the new form of command line arguments was introduced.

The --noout option was introduced on Sympa 6.2.71b.