(Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I recently switched to a VPS, and now finally have access to the mailman install.)
As mentioned in the old thread, I'd like add %(member_name) and %(member_address) as variables that can be used in the msg_header and msg_footer fields if desired by the list administrator. The idea is that messages sent to an anonymous mailing list could have msg_header set to this: %(member_name) writes: And in the subscription list, member_name would be the "handle" used by each person. This way, the email addresses stay anonymous, but the messages are still signed. Consider it "semi-anonymous". :) I'm not totally getting the custom handler thing, and I need this only for one of the lists I host. Something the list admin could setup if desired. It seems like a handler would fire for everyone. A better solution, if a hack, would be to modify the mailman source code, but I could use some pointers on where to get started. Thanks, Doug On May 26, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Doug Gaff wrote: LOL. I'll work on the handler. I'm not sure whether I can do this is a shared hosted environment, though. I'm looking into it. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:24 PM To: Doug Gaff Cc: 'Mark Sapiro'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] [Bulk] Re: private lists with real name signatures Doug Gaff writes: > Why isn't %(poster_name) available as a variable to be used in the > msg_footer options on the admin panel? Seems like that would be easier. It's not available because it's not available. Yours is an unusual use case; "normally" the poster's name is available in the From field, or not at all. No malice in this<wink>, it just never occurred to anybody to make it available for message headers and footers. This Handler could be added to a future version of Mailman, but 2.x is not planned for further development, and 3.0 is still some months away. No reason for you to wait! ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
