* Jim Hodson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I am working on setting up a Mailman mailing list for our web site at > http://www.jenniferonsunday.com. We are a band and already have many > people on an exisiting list (done manually), which we want to migrate to > Mailman. Our site is hosted by Webanimotion, and they have Mailman on > their server for us.
Well that might restrict what you can do with mailman unless your good friends with them or done a few free shows for 'em. But some of the things your asking will need more than web-admin access. > 1. Send e-mail news updates to our list. We do not want users to be able > to send to the list. Check FAQ 3.11 > The problem I've run into seems to revolve around the password, and the > Welcome E-mail. The Welcome E-mail has a lot more information in it than > we need. For instance, that e-mail tells users that they can post to the > list, which I do not want them to be able to do. I know I can turn off the > feature about sending them the Welcome E-mail, but then they won't have > their password. Change the template for the message in the templates/ dir. Worse case scenerio (spelled right?), user wants to unsubscribe, they have to goto the web page and have the password emailed to them to unsubscribe. I know thats not really the preferred method. > Also, when I migrate our current users to our Mailman list, I don't want > them to know about the migration. However, if they don't get a Welcome > E-mail, they also will not have a password, and will be unable to > unsubscribe automatically. You can also add text to the welcome messages in the General Options tab in the 'Notificaions' section (for MM2.1). > Is there a way to modify the Welcome E-mail (besides just the introduction > to it)? Is there a way to avoid having to use a password to unsubscribe? http://satya.virtualave.net/download.html#mailmanw It requires perl and MySQL, so it might not be able to fit into your setup. ---------------------------------------------- | Matthew Davis /\ http://dogpound.vnet.net/ | |--------------------------------------------| | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 / 10:13PM | ---------------------------------------------- When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
