Thanks for testing it! I'll give it a run tonight myself and tweak it. Shouldn't be too hard to make it work, though it might work better if I used a file in the ~mailman/templates/.. directory. It also doesn't need to be a function - I just thought I would get fancy.
It should be easy to play with and get it to work.. === I grepped the ~mailman/Mailman/.. dir for subscribeack.txt and found it in the file Deliverer.py. Then I peeked at the code in Deliverer.py and saw that it was a simple import of the text from the file (and then a translation of some dynamic variables from the text). So I thought of replacing the default filename with a function call and having the function return either the default file name (subscribeack.txt), or a different list specific file name (if it existed). I hacked it together in email. Never tested it. It's not something I'm likely to use. I normally don't worry about the welcome message. For my purposes, if it is inappropriate, I don't send a welcome message out. Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Sisler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the Welcome message on a per list basis... a shot in the dark > At 12:28 PM 04/11/2002 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: > > >Okay, here is the deal... > > > > - You can simply change the text in subscribeack.txt and you are done. > >This changes every welcome message from every list, or > > [snip] > > >def specwelcome(listname): > > """Return special welcome file for `listname' if it exists.""" > > # If a special subscibeack.txt file exists in the lists home directory > > # use that instead of the normal one specified in the templates dir > >welcfile = os.path.join(mm_cfg.LIST_DATA_DIR, listname, 'subscribeack.txt') > >if not os.path.exists(welcfile): > > welcfile = "subscribeack.txt" > >return welcfile > >=== > > > >This function looks for a copy of the subscribeack.txt file in the lists > >home directory (~mailman/lists/<listname>/..). If it finds a copy then it > >uses that, instead of the common one in ~mailman/templates/... > >At least, that is what it's supposed to do! > > Have you gotten this snippet of code to work? I tried and it bombed, > although I know very little about python so I may have done something > wrong. I haven't changed the following line yet: > > >To use it, you would add the function to Deliverer.py and then replace the > >existing line (in Deliverer.py): > > 'subscribeack.txt', > >with something like: > > specwelcome(name), > > Another solution would be to edit subscribeack.txt to include just text > that should be sent to *every* list and add your own text to the "list > specific text prepended..." box on the general options page. I'm > considering doing this to prevent the "to post to the list..." text & > accompanying e-mail address from being included in the welcome message for > announce only lists. The trick will be remembering to add the necessary > text and list address to lists that do accept posts! > > -Eric > > > Eric Sisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Applications Specialist > Westminster Public Library > Westminster, CO USA > > Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. > Want to know what we use Linux for? > Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
