The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Steve Sargent wrote:

Could I ask two very basic questions please?

Sure

What exactly is a robot and do I have to use one?

A virtual robot is the equivalent of a virtual host. And actually we've renamed it to "virtual host" in the next version of the reference manual.
You need one (or many) if you are hosting mailing lists in different DNS domains. A single Sympa server can host several virtual services with common configurations and specificities. Check this chapter of the reference manual : http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node14.html

How do I delete a mailing list on the command line? The manual and sympa.pl says I can close a list but it does not tell me how to delete it.

You can remove a list from the command line as follows :

sympa.pl --close_list=mylist@domain

You can also remove the list from the web interface : "admin" > "Remove list"