Generate initial configuration

Binary distributions

If you installed binary distribution (apt, RPM, ports, ...), initial configuration may have been prepared during installation: You can skip this section.

General instruction

With Sympa 6.2.70 or later, the following command will generate a configuration file sympa.conf containing the full set of parameters described in this manual.

# sympa config create

If you are using earlier version, or if you prefer to keep your configuration file as concise as possible, you may want to start with sympa.conf file containing only the following two lines:

domain mail.example.org
listmaster your@e-mail.addr.ess,other@email.addr.ess

• domain

  The "primary" mail domain name of the mailing list service. If your Sympa provides multiple domains and at anytime domain is not specified, this domain will be used. If your Sympa provides service for single domain, it is primary domain.

• listmaster

  Real address(es) of listmasters. If your Sympa provides multiple domains, it may have listmasters by each domain. However, listmaster(s) defined in sympa.conf have privileges to manage all domains, namely "super-listmaster".

  Multiple addresses have to be separated by comma (,). Addresses of real people should be chosen: Especially, messages sent to those addresses must not be forwarded to any addresses managed by Sympa.

Note

• On Sympa prior to 6.2.34, wwsympa_url parameter was also mandatory. If it is the case, you may specify appropriate value at this time.

Additionally, following parameter may be useful:

• lang

  Default language used in user interface of Sympa (Note that this setting never affect languages of messages sent by users). It should be one of possible values listed in supported_lang parameter. For example with Polish:

  lang pl
  

  The default value is en-US (American English).

To know about all available parameters in sympa.conf, see sympa_config(5).