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Sympa Mailinglist Manager

by Stefan Hornburg (‎Racke‎) (Hannover.pm)

Sympa Mailinglist Manager aimed at Any and is held in Deutsch. This talk starts on 2020-03-04 at 16:10 for 40 minutes. It takes place at the Room 1 united-domains.

Sympa is a mailing list manager written in Legacy Perl which has many
installations, especially at universities.

Selected features of Sympa (some of them are unique) which makes Sympa
a very flexible tool for mailing lists:

- Automatic import of subscribers, moderators and list admins from
various data sources
- Scenari controlling authorization and workflow
- Merge subscriber's data into mailing list posts
- Automatic generation of mailing lists

The community releases new Sympa version at least every three months
and plans major enhancements, e.g.

- REST API
- Responsible adminstration interface
- Ansible Provisioning
- Sympa Container
- Mail archive search tool using Elasticsearch

Slides: https://www.linuxia.de/talks/gpw2020/sympa-en-beamer.pdf


Tags: ansible database docker ldap sympa

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