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sympa for Debian
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-- Debian-specific Changes
The defaults for the subscribe and unsubscribe parameters in the list
creation templates have been changed from open to auth where applicable.
That is a more sane default and allowed me to enable the installation
of the subscribe alias by default.
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de> Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:33:30 +0200
-- Updating informations
With version 3.3.1, mailing lists configurations have been moved
to /var/lib/sympa as well as web archives and X509 certificates
Everything is set up for those locations if you never installed
sympa before.
With version 3.1.1, sympa and sympa-db were merged together into
sympa, for upgrade reasons.
With version 3.0, the package was deeply reorganized. There are now
three different packages:
- sympa which contains the base configuration
- sympa-db which provides a database support to Sympa
- wwsympa which contains WWSympa, a mailing list administration
Web interface
With version 2.6, sympa needs a cookie parameter in sympa.conf, i'm
automatically generating a /etc/sympa/cookie file for this purpose and the
default sympa configuration file reads the cookie from this file.
With version 2.5 there has been some major changements. All the files in
/etc/sympa/config are useless now. They have been replaced by templates
files. You'll find default templates in /usr/lib/sympa/templates and
you can override those files by putting your own templates in
/etc/sympa/templates. This does also apply to scenari, you can put
your own scenari in /etc/sympa/scenari. The sympa.conf file has also been
considerably modified, make sure you updated your config file. You
have to remove the lists* and help* entries. And you have to add the etc
entry which tells sympa where to look for site-specific configuration.
Make also sure that you have a listmaster entry.
With version 2.2.4 of the package some files have been renamed, the
postinst script will rename them automatically.
With version 1.5.1 of the package some binaries have moved, some symlinks
may be created if needed (notably for /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue).
-- Configuring new features from Sympa 3.3
. Virtual Robots
Sympa allow that you create virtual domains which are similar to
Apache Virtual Hosts.
In order to set up a given virtual domain, say `my.domain.org',
- create a directory called /etc/sympa/my.domain.org,
- create a file named `robot.conf' in that directory.
You can grab an example of a robot.conf file from
/usr/share/doc/sympa/examples/config.
See section 9 of the user manual for more details.
. LDAP
Configuring Sympa for LDAP requires that you create and configure
a file called /etc/sympa/auth.conf. You can grab an example of
a auth.conf file from /usr/share/doc/sympa/examples/config.
See section 7 of the user manual for further details.
-- Managing your aliases with alias_manager(.pl)
Instead of configuring mail aliases in the main alias file /etc/mail/aliases,
you can chose to use a dedicated alias file for Sympa mailing list aliases.
alias_manager is a script which aims to help you in managing mailing lists
aliases. It is preconfigured for storing aliases in /etc/mail/sympa.aliases.
Please note that you have to configure your MTA if you want it to take into
account this dedicated alias file.
Further details can be found in alias_manager manpage.
-- How to reconfigure Sympa?
All Sympa configuration files are located in /etc/sympa.
Note that some files have a `.in' extension. These are package specific
configuration files. These may contain both
- pre-configured variables. These variables must be modified by hand
- template variables whose values will be automatically replaced by the
Debian Configuration frontend. These variables are surrounded with `@'
and must not be modified by hand.
Here are package configuration files discribed for all packages.
sympa
-----
sympa.conf
This is the only configuration file for Sympa.
You can directly modify parameters and add optional variables as they
will dynamically be taken into account by sympa.
Database configuration must not be modify by hand. If you want to
configure Sympa for using a database or if you want to modify
the database configuration, please reconfigure sympa with:
dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low sympa
sympa.conf-smine.in
S/MIME specific parameters must be configured through this file.
You can only modify pre-configured variables: template variables must
not be modified. Once you want sympa to be reconfigured, please run
dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low sympa
wwsympa
-------
WWSympa does configure itself through the wwsympa.conf file. However, this
file does not exist in the package since it is automatically generated
by the means of the following files:
wwsympa.conf
This file is the configuration file for WWSympa.
You can directly modify parameters and add optional variables as they
will dynamically be taken into account by wwsympa.
httpd.conf-fcgi
This file contains the WWSympa specific FastCGI configuration for Apache.
If you want to change this configuration, you will have to edit this file.
Do not modify httpd.conf directly.
FastCGI configuration
One of the parameters you may have to change is the number of FastCGI
processes you want to run at a time: the more processes you run, the
fastest will be CGI responses.
This parameter can be changed in the following line:
FastCgiServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi -processes <nb-processes>
httpd.conf-cgi
This file contains the WWSympa specific CGI configuration (basic configuration)
for Apache.
If you want to change this configuration, you will have to edit this file.
Do not modify httpd.conf directly.
Once you want reconfigure WWSympa with one of those modifications, please run
dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low wwsympa
-- Making Sympa work with PostgreSQL
In order to make Sympa work with Postgresql and ident authentication, you
need the following:
in /etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf:
local sympa ident sympa
in /etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf:
sympa root root
sympa root postgres
sympa postgres postgres
sympa sympa sympa
This gives the required access to the database to the relevant users.
-- Comments regarding the Package
There's a French speaking mailing-list called sympa-fr@cru.fr,
you can subscribe to it by sending a message with this line in the body
"SUB sympa-fr First_Name Family_Name" to sympa@cru.fr.
There's also an english-speaking mailing-list called sympa-users@cru.fr,
you can subscribe to it by sending a message with this line
in the body "SUB sympa-users First_Name Family_Name" to sympa@cru.fr.
The sympa web page is : http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/
Any translation of documentation should be sent to me in order
to include it to the package, you can also send me others
messages catalogs for sympa. I'll forward them to the upstream
author if they weren't already.
Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org>, Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:53:43 +0200
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