These pages aredesigned to help users familiar with the old Mailbase system to use Sympa. What follows is a list of common Mailbase email commands and their equivalents in Sympa.
The Mailbase software was retired in April 2007.
The first thing of note should be that with Mailbase, commands are sent to mailbase@ncl.ac.uk, with Sympa, the equivalent address is sympa@ncl.ac.uk.
The second thing of note should be that unlike Mailbase, if you are a listowner of a list, then you also need to be a member in order to post to it. With Sympa, ownership of a list does not automatically confer membership.