Hello, I've been using Mailman for a while now for a single, low-traffic, low-membership list. I'm now launching a service that's going to use mailman for quite a few more low-traffic, low-membership lists, and I'm trying to set up some customizations for the membership and administrative interfaces. This is going to be fairly tightly integrated with a web site that uses a MySQL database to store a bunch of membership information. So now I've done a bit of digging, and figured out how to modify the templates and mailing list defaults, but there's a couple of things I'm still trying to figure out:
1. I've seen some references to a way of managing users in a SQL database. Is this implemented yet? I haven't been able to find anything explaining how to go about doing it. Since my users are already going to have an entry in a SQL database, I thought it would be great to combine the site password for a user with the mailman password, and make the whole thing less confusing. 2. I can't figure out how to get default text that uses a variable into the list at creation time. I'd like the description to have a specific short sentence that includes the %(real_name)s variable, but I don't know much about Python, and it doesn't seem to work. Can I put this variable in the description text, and have it expand correctly? I have a few other ideas for web sites that might use different default configurations of Mailman. So here's a few questions related to this: 3. Can you customize default information/templates for a single virtual domain? It appears that changing the Mailman/templates/* affects the entire site. Is there a way to have different default templates, based on the virtual host? Probably simpler--what Python syntax would I use to add custom default variables to the mm_cfg.py file, and where would I start to dig to find where the templates are loaded, so I could hack in some conditional path changes? 4. I'm confused about the ADMIN_CATEGORIES variable. I redefined it in mm_cfg.py (to remove some of the categories for list admins--I'm trying to make this whole thing very simple for my users), and it changed the menu site-wide. I'm thinking, if I knew the basic conditional construct for Python, I could just redefine it for specific domains. Is there any function set up to do this already, or something else I should consider before doing so? Guess I'm answering some of my own questions here. I know nothing about Python--maybe I'll go read up on it a bit first. But if somebody could give me an answer for #1, I'd appreciate it, and if there's any short cuts I should look at for the others, it'd be great! I do have virtual domains working just fine, otherwise... Thanks, John Locke http://www.freelock.com Just launched: http://teamcheckin.com ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------ 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
