Moving from Mailbase to Sympa - Listowner commands

This page is a brief 'crib sheet' detailing the more common Mailbase owner commands and their equivalents in Sympa.


Note, however, that a lot of listowner admin is 'do-able' in Sympa from the web interface only, rather than by email. Basic list administration such as adding and removing users is however available by e-mail.


It is expected that most list admin will be done over the web - current experience shows that most Mailbase list admin is done nowadays by the web (rather than the original email commands).


Remember, commands are sent to sympa@ncl.ac.uk.

Adding a list member:

Mailbase:

ADD MEMBER listname user@host firstname lastname
Sympa:
INVITE listname user@host firstname lastname

Adding a list member (without a request for their confirmation) :

Mailbase:

NOCONFIRM
ADD MEMBER listname user@host firstname lastname
Sympa:
QUIET ADD listname user@host firstname lastname

Adding another owner :

Mailbase:

ADD OWNER listname user@host firstname lastname
Sympa:
There is no email command for this - use the web interface.

Adding another owner (without a request for their confirmation) :

Mailbase:

NOCONFIRM 
ADD OWNER listname user@host firstname lastname
Sympa:
There is no email command for this - use the web interface.

Adding a moderator :

Mailbase:

ADD MODERATOR listname user@host firstname lastname
Sympa:
There is no email command for this - use the web interface.

Remove a list member :

Mailbase:

REMOVE MEMBER listname user@host
Sympa:
DELETE listname user@host

Remove a list member (without them being notified) :

Mailbase:

QUIET
REMOVE MEMBER listname user@host
Sympa:
QUIET DELETE listname user@host

Suspending mail for a list member :

Mailbase:

SUSPEND MAIL listname user@host
Sympa:
There is no email command for this - use the web interface.

Resuming mail for a list member :

Mailbase:

RESUME MAIL listname user@host
Sympa:
There is no email command for this - use the web interface.

Get statistics on your list :

Mailbase:

STATS listname
Sympa:
STATS listname

Change list options :

Mailbase:

ENABLE option listname
where option is one of either : web, files, mailin, review, subscription, archive, moderation, reply-to-list
Sympa:
There is a wealth of various settings you can change for a Sympa list - these are available from the web interface.