Sympa

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Sympa

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Basic data

developer Christophe Wolfhugel, Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün, David Verdin
Current  version 6.2.56
( May 24, 2020 )
operating system Platform independent
programming language Perl , C.
category Mailing list
License GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
www.sympa.org

Sympa (fr. For "nice" or "sympathetic" Apronym of systems de Multi-Postage Automatique , German system for automated multiple-delivery ) is a software for managing mailing lists . Christophe Wolfhugel developed Sympa as the successor to TULP, a software with the same purpose that has not been further developed in the meantime.

Sympa is published under the GPL and is therefore free software .

properties

Since Sympa uses relational databases internally , it is usually faster than systems that handle their internal administration using simple text files. Because of this, the software is particularly suitable for use in environments with a large number of subscribers and / or high fluctuation. List administrators can dynamically generate subscriber lists from sources such as external databases and LDAP directories . Virtual mail domains are also supported by Sympa.

Furthermore, there is the possibility of emails via S / MIME to sign and encrypt .

A web interface provided for users, list and server administrators can be operated as a FastCGI service. About this Web interface also are RSS - web feeds of the mailing lists provided.

The diverse authentication options , including LDAP , CAS and Shibboleth, allow Sympa to be integrated into complex infrastructures. To protect against the spread of viruses, it is possible to have all incoming and outgoing emails checked by a virus scanner.

Since Sympa supports the UTF-8 character encoding , mailing lists can be displayed in a large number of languages.

history

Development began in 1995 when new functions were requested in TULP and it was discovered that the TULP source code was not robust enough to be able to integrate these new functions. Christophe Wolfhugel, who had been involved in the development of TULP, then began to write Sympa from scratch. It was almost two years before it was first published. In 1999 the web interface was added. Two years later, the developers expanded the range of functions to include S / MIME capabilities and the virus scanner plug-in.

The support of LDAP - authentication and for virtual hosting was published in of 2002. In September 2003, the options for authentication using CAS and Shibboleth followed. One month later, in December 2003, support for the SOAP interface became available.

The web interface underwent several changes in 2005. The markup language was changed from HTML to XHTML , mailing lists were now available via RSS feed. The last big step so far was the conversion of the character encoding to UTF-8 in 2006.

Since then, Sympa has been continuously developed and improved.

User (selection)

Sympa is used by a large number of institutions, universities and companies.

Web links

Alternatives

Well-known alternatives are:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release 6.2.56 . May 24, 2020 (accessed May 25, 2020).
  2. ↑ Soji Ikeda: Sympa 6.2.56 released . May 24, 2020 (accessed May 29, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c d David Verdin: History. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 22, 2010 (English).
  4. ↑ Serge Aumunt: Scalability. (PDF (61.7 KB)) In: Sympa, a mailing list software for universities. Accessed on January 25, 2010 (English): "To meet these needs, Sympa delegates data storage to a relational database; [...]"
  5. ↑ David Verdin: List configuration / Data sources setup. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 25, 2010 .
  6. ^ David Verdin: Virtual Hosts. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 31, 2010 (English).
  7. ^ David Verdin: S / MIME configuration. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 25, 2010 .
  8. ↑ David Verdin: Using FastCGI. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 25, 2010 .
  9. ↑ David Verdin: Section LDAP of the configuration file auth.conf . In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 28, 2010 (English).
  10. ^ David Verdin: CAS-based authentication. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 28, 2010 (English).
  11. ^ David Verdin: Setting up a Shibboleth-enabled Sympa server. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 28, 2010 (English).
  12. ^ David Verdin: Antivirus plug-in. In: Sympa 6.1 Reference Manual. Retrieved January 25, 2010 .
  13. ↑ www.sympa.org: Project direction. Retrieved January 31, 2010 (English).
  14. ^ UNESCO: Mailing Lists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 23, 2007 ; accessed on January 22, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / communities.unesco.org
  15. ^ ETHZ: Mailing lists of the IT services. Retrieved November 24, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems: Mailing lists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 22, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lists.iais.fraunhofer.de
  17. ↑ Mailing list from Humboldt University Berlin. Retrieved January 31, 2010 .
  18. ↑ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3: Service de listes de diffusion. Retrieved January 31, 2010 (French).
  19. ^ Trinity College Mailing Lists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 14, 2010 ; accessed on January 31, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sympa.aas.duke.edu
  20. ↑ Central IT Service of the University of Innsbruck: Use of mailing lists. Accessed on January 31, 2010 : "The ZID operates a central mailing list server based on Sympa."
  21. ↑ Uni Mainz Mailing Lists. Retrieved April 16, 2012 .
  22. ^ Uni Marburg Mailing Lists. Retrieved August 10, 2010 .
  23. ↑ Detailed list of users. Retrieved January 22, 2010 (French).