If you upgrade from <6.2, read https://www.sympa.org/faq/upgrade-to-v6.2 Else upgrade with: run sympa.pl --upgrade If this is your first installation of sympa, run create database with this schema: %%LOCALBASE%%/libexec/sympa/create_db.%%DB_TYPE%% run sympa_wizard.pl for wwsympa server, see samples configs in %%EXAMPLESDIR%%