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Sympa is a full-featured open-source mailing list software, written in Perl.

Sympa is a full-featured open-source mailing list software, written in Perl. It supports all normal mailing list features, including external data sources, S/MIME, templating and a fully configurable web interface.

The Sympa website is at https://www.sympa.org/

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How to properly configure a mailing list server to be SPF friendly?

UPDATE: The SPF record I have in DNS for domain mailinglist.com: mailinglist.com. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ptr include:gateway.com ?all" UPDATE2: The From:, Reply-To:, Sender: and Return-Path:headers from a failed message: ... From: "bob"…
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How to watch a service with multiple processes with Monit?

I'm trying to watch the mailing list manager sympa with monit. A running sympa instance consists of multiple processes for the different tasks of list management (e.g. a separate process for archiving emails), but all processes are started/stopped…
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Sympa sending problems with attachments

I have set up a Sympa list serv server and everything is working fine for the most part. One issue that I am running into is sending files over ~580 KB in size (just a normal .txt file) are not going through. I am getting the following…
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Translating sendmail "MASQUERADE_AS" to postfix?

Attempting to update an old server application (Sympa) to a newer OS. Fun. This includes related services (Sendmail to Postfix). More Fun. Going through the sendmail.mc, we have…
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Sympa and Postfix: Apache error on list creation

I have setup sympa with postfix. I am having problems with creating lists. Everytime I create a list I get this in my /var/log/apache2/error.log: postalias: fatal: open /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied Failed to execute newaliases:…
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Sympa install on CentOS/Fedora

Has anyone installed the Sympa mailing list software on Fedora or CentOS? I am not a huge fan of their instructions on sympa.org. I have installed the program and emails are working, but I can't seem to get the web site to work. Any help or links to…
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Postfix: rewriting the recipient domain on relayed mail

I have a mail relay (mx2.mycorp.com)which accepts mail for somelist@lists.mycorp.com. These posts are forwarded to a Sympa mailing list server which accepts postings for the mycorp.com domain. This has been working for quite some time on an older…
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Postfix disable local e-mail delivery, but maintain inbound delivery

I'm running a SYMPA lists server. I also host e-mail on a separate server for the users that want these lists. Primary MX records go to the Zimbra e-mail server, lists that reside on my Linux SYMPA server get forwarded from that e-mail server my …
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Nginx fcgi connection refused socket file sympa

I've been trying to install Sympa Mailing List(written in Perl) for two days now and have come to problem I can't figure out. I have installed the sympa debian package which includes wwsympa and configured System V script to start wwsympa as…
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Delete user from Sympa mailing list

So I have been trying to remove a user from one of our Sympa mailing lists, and can't for the life of me get it to stick. I have deleted the entry for the user under /var/sympa/lists/listname/subscribers.db, I have set myself to both sympa admin and…
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Configure Sympa: Command output usage error

I have a problem on configuring Sympa. I've created a new list new_test_list@example.com, but when I try to send mail to this list, I get an error in my maillog: postfix/pipe[13544]: C699261227: to=new_test_list@example.com, relay=sympa, delay=0.33,…
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Sympa suddenly changed the domain of all lists

we have on our server sympa with postfix installed. Everything was working fine for about 6 months. On our server were about 100 lists with the format listname@foobar.de Since yesterday the format of all lists is listname@intern.foobar.de…
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Sympa commands silently fail

I have a Postfix server on a Debian box and I use Sympa for mailing-lists. The mailing-lists work fine (the messages are correctly distributed to suscribers) but sympa commands don't work. When I send an email to sympa@example.org, it appears in…
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Default exim not using the from address being passed to it

After replacing postfix with exim (defaults) now the from address on mail sent by an application (sympa) is being changed xyz@goodstuff.whatever to xyz@hostname Why? no rewrite rules seem to be declared Please help Regards
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Make Sympa authenticate users with another database and tablestructure

We would like to integrate Sympa's webinterface with another system using MySQL using the other systems user table. I've done some searching but since Sympa is poorly documented no results of relevance has shown up. Is this possible?
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