###Sympal

####pip3 install Sympal

A python3 API for basic administration tasks for Sympa mailing lists.

This package is NOT meant to replace the server side command line interface for Sympa, but instead, is a management tool for users of an institutional Sympa server. With this package, you will be able to manage list subscriptions and bounces of your mailing lists with ease.

I mostly wrote this because the Sympa web interface is clunky -- being able to script complex changes to lists saves me a lot of time.

with Sympa("http://lists.server.domain/sympa") as sympa:
    sympa.log_in("email", "password")

    sympa.populate_all()  # Can populate all lists at once, but don't have to do so

    for name, mailing_list in sympa.lists.items():
        print("Name: {}".format(name))

        print("Subscribers:")  # All subscribed email addresses
        for email, subscriber in mailing_list.get_subscribers().items():
            print("{}".format(email))

        print("Bouncing:")  # Bouncing email addresses
        for email, subscriber in mailing_list.get_bouncing().items():
            print("{}".format(email))

        # Reset bouncing email addresses
        mailing_list.reset_bouncing()

        # Remove bouncing email addresses
        mailing_list.remove_bouncing()

        # Add example user
        mailing_list.add_subscriber("[email protected]", "Firstname Lastname")

        # Remove example user
        mailing_list.remove_subscriber("[email protected]")

        # Set the subscribers to the list of 3 example addresses
        mailing_list.set_subscribers(["[email protected]",
                               "[email protected]",
                               "[email protected]"])

        # Set subscribers to those contained in test_email_list.txt
        mailing_list.set_subscribers("test_email_list.txt")

Alternatively, you can also create a Sympa object without context management:

sympa = Sympa("http://lists.server.domain/sympa")
sympa.log_in("email", "password")  # Log in
...
subscribers = sympa.lists['list_name'].get_subscribers()  # Do things
...
sympa.log_out()  # log out - normally called by __exit__
sympa.close()  # close connection - normally called by __exit__