Sympa
Sympa is a scalable and highly customizable mailing list software. It can cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is internationalized. Sites can customize Web and mail templates, authentication backends, and authorization scenarios. Dynamic mailing lists can use multiple backends (LDAP, SQL, files, lists, or others). Sympa is the only S/MIME enabled mailing list software, and it provides both authentication and encryption.
| Tags | Communications Email Mailing List Servers File Sharing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 17 Jun 2009 17:38
Changes: This release introduces deep changes in Sympa, including better handling of message sending, an improved Web interface, and improved administration functionalities, especially for messages moderation, antispam, and Web interface customization.
- 20 Apr 2009 08:44
Changes: Since version 5.4, bugs were fixed and the translations were improved for most of the supported languages.
- 28 Mar 2008 04:18
Changes: The use of HTTP session was introduced in order to replace a lot of cookies, for better usability and security. Protections have been added, including the support of the LDAPS protocol, along with XSS and session hijacking protection. Five new languages are included in the distribution, and many more have been updated. The performance, mainly regarding the Web interface, has been significantly improved. A significant effort was made to close most reported bugs.
- 03 Dec 2007 05:05
Changes: This release fixes some bugs in the latest 5.3.3 release.
- 31 May 2007 10:12
Changes: Automatic list creation allows list creation to be triggered when a message is sent for the list. List members can upload and share pictures to represent themselves. Accessibility of the Web interface has been enhanced. Generalization of UTF-8 was done. Translations have been updated for Polish, Japanese, Brazilian, Spanish, Italian, Occitan, and English.
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Recent commentsSympa on Debian
Warning folks, the debian Woody (testing) version of sympa is currently out-of-order, you have to use the Sid (unstable) version instead - it works perfectly !