For experimentation, Sympa's team propose you a pre-installed Sympa server as a virtual machine (VMWARE). See virtual Sympa Server pages

Soji Ikeda built Sympa RPM packages for Red Hat EL 5 / CentOS 5: http://sympa-JA.org/download/RHEL5/

Sympa is included in the Mandrake distribution but latest package are provided below :

• ftp://ftp.ac-nantes.fr/sympa (Contact : rectorat de Nantes)

Sympa is incluced in Debian distributions. Debian package is maintained by Stefan Hornburg and Jean Charles Delepine :

• http://packages.debian.org/sympa

FreeBSD port, Olivier Girard :

• http://www.freshports.org/mail/sympa5/

Solaris 7 package, Josep Román :

• The package is currenty not available (ftp://ftp.zuerich-see.ch/pub/solaris_pkg/sympa)

We created a list dedicated to discussions regarding Sympa packaging. You can find it and subscribe here: sympa-packagers