6.2.42

Sympa is an open source mailing list manager. It provides advanced features with a rich and secure web interface.

Original features :

scalable for big mailings lists ( > 1.000.000 list members)
list member provisioning using LDAP, SQL or other data sources
various authentication method (SSO, LDAP, X509)
S/MIME and DKIM
web archive with access control, message removal etc
virtual hosting for service providers.
automatic bounce management
easily customizable web interface
SOAP interface for integration with other applications

More features description.

Sympa contacts:

If you want to get/give some help administrating Sympa, join the mailing lists:
- English speaking mailing list
- la liste francophone
If you want to contribute to the code: join the Sympa community on Github,
If you want to report a bug: post an issue on Github,
If you want to help translating Sympa: Create your account on the translation tools,
You want to speak to the developers, pick one or more of the following:
- join the Sympa IRC channel: #sympa on freenode.net
- write to the developers mailing list: sympa-developpers@listes.renater.fr
- open an issue on Github

Whichever you chose: welcome to the community!

Proudly developed in Perl!

Sympa 6.2.42 released

March 20, 2019

Read the original announcement for more details.

The Sympa Community is proud to release the second beta of the next version of Sympa.

Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.

Read the original announcement for more details.

Highlight of this version

New features

This version introduces several enhancements. Among them, following features are contributed by Luc Didry, Framasoft.

Global "quiet add" policy

(#503)

Have a quiet_subscription setting in sympa.conf allowing to enforce the “quiet add” policy, either for forcing quiet subscriptions (in enterprise for ex.) or disabling quiet subscriptions (public Sympa server, have to respect GDPR). Default behavior will be no enforcing, so quiet add is list's owner's choice.

"Delete my account" button

(#300)

A “delete my account” button wll unsubscribe you from all lists and remove your account immediatly. To protect that feature, Sympa could asks for the user password. By default this feature is disabled: allow_account_deletion setting in sympa.conf may activate it.

"Domain blacklist" feature

(#295)

domains_blacklist setting in sympa.conf will prevent addresses with particular domain(s) from subscribing to list. This feature may be useful for some purposes, for example not to register addresses with domains no longer providing mail service.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

Italian (Italiano)
Spanish (Español)
Galician (Galego)
German (Deutsch)
French (Français)
Russian (Русский)
Japanese (日本語)
US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

Catalan (Català)
Basque (Euskara)
Polish (Polski)

Sympa 6.2.41 beta 2 released

March, 9 2019

Sympa 6.2.41 beta released

February, 2 2019

Check the release notes

Sympa 6.2.40 released

January 19, 2019

Read the original announcement for more details.

Sympa 6.2.40 is the newest patch release of Sympa 6.2. Administrators running or planning to run previous version (6.2.38) are strongly recommended to upgrade to this version. For more details, see “Note for upgrading” below.

Note for upgrading

This version fixes a bug introduced into Sympa 6.2.38 (See issue #527 for details). This bug does not affect earlier versions.

Administrators matching following conditions are recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Sympa 6.2.38 is running,
web interface is available, and
there are lists which either:
- make archives open to public and enable “cookie” spam protection (note that “cookie” setting is enabled by default),
- allow the users to unsubscribe themselves from the list using web interface (including use of “auto_signoff” link in message footer), or
- allow to use URL links in system messages so that users authorize requests for adding, removing, moving or reminding users.

Sympa 6.2.38 released

December 21, 2018

Read the original announcement for more details.

Highlight of this version

ARC support

Sympa supports ARC (Authenticated Received Chain). Its implementation and documentation were contributed by John Levine.

In a nutshell, ARC is an e-mail authentication scheme that remedies a problem of DMARC especially with mailing list service. About ARC in general, see a slide by DMARC.org (PDF). To enable ARC on Sympa, documentation on DKIM and ARC with Sympa.

CSRF tolerance

Random token to prevent CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgeries) attacks will be inserted in every form on web interface. This enhancement was contributed by Michael Kaczmarczik, UT Austin.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa completely or almost completely supports following languages:

Spanish (Español)
Galician (Galego)
German (Deutsch)
French (Français)
Russian (Русский)
Japanese (日本語)
US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

Catalan (Català)
Basque (Euskara)
Polish (Polski)

Binary distribution for Fedora and RHEL (and clones)

People running either Fedora or RHEL (and clones) can find ready to use RPMs for sympa in a COPR sympa repository. People willing to also get sympa beta releases should additionally use this COPR sympa-beta repository.

For Fedora, see instruction in the pages above. For RHEL and clones, you also need to enable the EPEL repository.

Note that unofficial repository on Sympa-JA.org is still available. Administrators who have used it and are not planning to install beta do not need to change their repository settings.