Mark,
Thank you for your timely reply. I sort of understand what you are saying. I edited MailList.py to look like this:
'verify.txt',
{'email' : newaddr,
'listaddr' : self.GetListEmail(),
'listname' : realname,
'cookie' : cookie,
'requestaddr': self.GetRequestEmail(),
'remote' : '',
'listadmin' : self.GetOwnerEmail(),
'listinfo_url : listinfo_url,
'confirmurl' : confirmurl,
}, lang=lang, mlist=self)
I then restarted Mailman.
When I tried to subscribe to a list that required confirmation, I got this:
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
happened. Thanks! Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/lists/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
main()
File "/lists/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 96, in main
process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
File "/lists/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 176, in process_form
mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
File "/lists/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in AddMember
{'email' : email,
NameError: global name 'listinfo_url' is not defined
So, I removed the listinfo_url entry and it is back to normal.
Any idea what happened?
Mark Sapiro wrote:
Christopher Adams wrote:
I have posted this question to the list before, but have never resolved it.
I am looking at the files in the template directory, specifically newlist.txt and verify.txt. The newlist file is the information sent to list owners when the list is set up. The verify file is the information sent to confirm an email address when a person subscribes to a list that requires confirmation.
I want to make some changes to this information, which affects all lists. I can make some changes, but some don't seem to work. The most significant is the Python strings that parse information into links, specifically %(listinfo_url)s and %(emailaddr)s . If I insert %(emailaddr)s into the newlist.txt file, when I generate a new list, the exact text %(emailaddr)s shows in the message and it doesn't render it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I insert into the verify.txt file, I get the same result. My confusion comes in when I see that these strings are used successfully in other template files.
What gives? Is there something contextual about the use of these strings that makes them unuseable in other templates?
Yes there is. The interpolation is done in Utils.py by findtext() which in most cases is called via maketext(). The caller to these routines specifies a template and a dictionary to be used for interpolations into that template. Thus each template has its own dictionary.
For example, if you 'cd' to your mailman installation and do
grep -r verify\.txt *
you'll find the only code references to verify.txt are in MailList.py. These in turn are in adding a new member where confirmation is required
text = Utils.maketext( 'verify.txt', {'email' : email, 'listaddr' : self.GetListEmail(), 'listname' : realname, 'cookie' : cookie, 'requestaddr' : self.GetRequestEmail(), 'remote' : remote, 'listadmin' : self.GetOwnerEmail(), 'confirmurl' : confirmurl, }, lang=lang, mlist=self)
and in changing a member address
text = Utils.maketext( 'verify.txt', {'email' : newaddr, 'listaddr' : self.GetListEmail(), 'listname' : realname, 'cookie' : cookie, 'requestaddr': self.GetRequestEmail(), 'remote' : '', 'listadmin' : self.GetOwnerEmail(), 'confirmurl' : confirmurl, }, lang=lang, mlist=self)
Thus, unless you add items to the dictionary in these calls, the only items that will be interpolated in the verify.txt template are 'email', 'listaddr', 'listname', 'cookie', 'requestaddr', 'remote', 'listadmin' and 'confirmurl'.
-- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
-- Christopher Adams Library Systems Analyst Oregon State Library 503-378-4243 258 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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