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Sympa is a mailing list manager, with good support for multidomains, SOAP webservice.

It lives in /var/lib/sympa. It's NOT managed as a Debian package, but installed from source.

Install

$ ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/sympa
$ make
$ make install
$ cd /var/lib/sympa/bin
$ ./sympa_wizard.pl --check

Configuration is located in /etc/sympa as a Git repository.

Postfix configuration is to be amended through D849.

We need fcgiwrap listening at /run/fcgiwrap.socket.

$ apt-get install fcgiwrap
$ systemctl status fcgiwrap 
$ ls /run/fcgiwrap.socket

Currently on Dwellers. It only forwards requests for lists domain to our back-end nginx.

Configuration as code.

This service should be properly defined in rOPS repository as a Salt state.