Sympa

Mailing list manager.

Actively maintained

At a glance

GitHub stars
316
Last activity
2026-08-14
Latest release
6.2.80
2026-08-14
Commits (12 mo)
63
License
GPL-2.0
Language / platform
Perl

Maintenance health: Actively maintained — Commits in the last 3 months.

Run Sympa yourself

  • RAM: ~512 MB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr512 MB$3.5Deploy →
DigitalOcean512 MB$4Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)1 GB$5Deploy →

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