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

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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:...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 MASQUERADE_AS(`...
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Sympa install on CentOS/Fedora [closed]

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 ...
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Configure Sympa: Command output usage error

I have a problem on configuring Sympa. I've created a new list [email protected], but when I try to send mail to this list, I get an error in my maillog: postfix/pipe[13544]: C699261227: to=...
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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 [email protected] Since yesterday the format of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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/...
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Postfix: rewriting the recipient domain on relayed mail

I have a mail relay (mx2.mycorp.com)which accepts mail for [email protected]. These posts are forwarded to a Sympa mailing list server which accepts postings for the mycorp.com domain. This ...
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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 ...
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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 [email protected] to xyz@hostname Why? no rewrite rules seem to be ...
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Sympa + PostgreSQL install: Upgrade::probe_db() Table user_table not found (Ubuntu Hardy)

I've hit a problem when trying to install Sympa on an Ubuntu Hardy server. The problem seems related with the associated PostreSQL database. Steps I followed: 1) Installed PostreSQL. sudo apt-get ...
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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 ...
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Notify user of message distribution in Sympa

I was wondering if it's possible to notify users who have had messages distributed in the same way that if a user gets rejected they get a notification. There doesn't appear to be any way to turn the ...
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Sympa attachments are zero length when downloading from a message in moderation

I have an issue with the web interface for Sympa mailing list server. If you try to download an attachment from a message that's in moderation, the file is zero length. The mime headers are being sent ...
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