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sympa migration step by step

18 November 2008 - 3:00pm — abate

I had to migrate a sympa installation from one domain to another. The sympa manual is certainly not of a much help. After a bit of trial and error this is my recipe.

A small warning: keep your backup available at all times. This procedure works with grep, sed and friends and it is not certainly fool proof.

  • Switch off your MTA and sympa daemon. From this moment on, you will have about 12h to finish your migration. After this time, you might start to loose incoming emails.
  • Dump the sql database. With mysql you can use mysqldump to obtain a copy of you db.

configuring sympa with postfix

3 July 2008 - 10:19am — abate

Last week I took over the task of migrating sympa from a vserver machine to a xen vm. In the process I upgraded the sympa version and changed the MTA, from sendmail (ahhhhhhhhhh) to postfix. In my opinion sympa is designed to do far too many things just to be a mailing list manager. In particular, it has its own mail spool, it organizes mail delivering (via the MTA) and bounces.

connect mrbs with sympa

1 July 2008 - 6:03pm — abate

Today I wrote a small script to allow mrbs [1] to authenticate with the sympa[2] database. mrbs has a nice feature to use an external command to do authentication. This is a simple script that query the sympa db.

#! /usr/bin/perl
use lib '/usr/lib/sympa/bin';
use wwslib;

unless (require Crypt::CipherSaber) {
    die "Crypt::CipherSaber not installed ; cannot crypt passwords";
}

require 'tools.pl';

use List;

## Load sympa config
&Conf::load('/etc/sympa/sympa.conf') || die 'config_error';
chdir $Conf::Conf{'home'};

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