Customizing Sympa

Note

• This chapter is work in progress.

  Please consider adding description and instruction written by your own (See CONTRIBUTING).

• See related links of each feature:

  • 🔧 for configuration parameters,
  • ⚙ for configuration files and
  • 📦 for optional external modules.

Customization basics

• Message workflow
• Roles and privileges
• Configuration hierarchy
• Configuration for each list
• Templates
• Authorization scenarios
• Tasks
• Internationalization
• List families

Customizing Sympa services

To manage these features, listmaster privileges and/or console login are needed.

• Receiving 🔧

• Sending related 🔧

  • Message personalization 🔧

• Distribution 🔧 ⚙

• Privileges 🔧 ⚙

• Archives 🔧 ⚙

• Bounce management 🔧

• Loop prevention 🔧

• Automatic list creation 🔧

• Tag based spam filtering 🔧

• Directories 🔧

• Miscellaneous 🔧

• Others

  • Custom list parameters 🔧

  • Custom user attributes 🔧

  • Custom user attributes in database 🔧 🔧

Customizing web interface

To manage these features, listmaster privileges and/or console login are needed.

• Appearances 🔧

• Authentication on web interface ⚙

• Session and cookie 🔧

• Shared document repository 🔧 (Work in progress)

• Web mailer 🔧 (Work in progress)

• Password ⚙ 🔧 📦

• Miscellaneous 🔧

  • One time ticket 🔧
  • Pictures 🔧
  • Protection against spam harvesters 🔧 ⚙

• Message tracking 🔧

• RSS feed

• User-friendly automatic lists 🔧 ⚙

Sympa services: Optional features

These features need installation of additional software components including external Perl modules.

• S/MIME 🔧 📦 📦

• Data sources 🔧 📦 📦 📦 📦 📦 📦 📦 📦

• DKIM and ARC 🔧 📦

• DMARC protection 🔧 📦

• Managing aliases with LDAP ⚙ ⚙ 📦 📦

• Managing aliases with RDBMS (currently broken)

• List address verification 🔧 📦 (📦)

• Antivirus plug-in

• Miscellaneous modules 📦 📦 ...

Web interface: Optional features

These features need installation of additional software components including external Perl modules.

• CAS single sign-on ⚙ 📦

• TLS client authentication 📦

• Password validation 🔧 📦

• Authentication with LDAP ⚙ 📦 📦

• Setting up a Shibboleth-enabled Sympa server ⚙ 📦

• SOAP/HTTP API 🔧 ⚙ ⚙ 📦

• Miscellaneous modules 📦 📦 ...

Extending Sympa

These features need skill of Perl programming.

• Custom scenario conditions

• Message hooks

• Template plugins

  • List of template plugins

• Custom actions for web interface

Sympa and other systems

Integrating Sympa with other systems

• LMTP delivery
• OpenSocial integration (under development)
• Placing Sympa behind mail relay
• Placing WWSympa behind reverse proxy
• Sympa high availability (HA) cluster

Other topics

• Migrating from other mailing list systems