Package: sympa (5.3.4-2ubuntu2) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Ubuntu MOTU Developers (Mail Archive)

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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Modern mailing list manager

Sympa is a scalable and highly customizable modern mailing list manager which can cope with big lists (200,000 subscribers). It can can handle a lots of useful features :

 - Moderation
 - Digest mode
 - Authentication (for subscription process)
 - Archive management
 - Multi-language support (us, fr, de, as, it, fi and Chinese locales)
 - Expiration process
 - Virtual domains (virtual robots)
 - Accesses to LDAP directories
 - Using an RDBMS for storing subscriber information (it supports both MySQL
   and PostgreSQL).
 - S/MIME encryption and HTTPS authentication

Sympa provides a scripting language for extending the behaviour of commands, and a complete (user and admin) Web interface called WWSympa, which comes with original features such as :

 - Unique interface for users and admin, authentication
 - Contextual internationalization (English, French and Spanish)
 - Archives (MhOnArc) with access control and a Search Engine
    (MarcSearch)
 - Clean moderation
 - Edition of service messages (templates) for owner and listmaster
 - Semi-automatic bounces management
 - HTTPS authentication
 - Support for virtual hosting with respect to virtual domains

SYMPA means 'SYstème de Multi-Postage Automatique' (French) or 'Automatic Mailing System' (English).

It is written in Perl and uses some modules (mailtools, md5, msgcat, db).

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	3,020.3 kB	8,544.0 kB	[list of files]
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