On 01/07/2015 10:50 AM, JB wrote: > > I have finished setting up the list and then I went into the TOPICS section > and set up three topics (fishing, books, trains). I do not see anywhere that > allows users to subscribe to specific topics nor do I know how to send out an > email and indicate which topic(s) it is pertaining to.
Users subscribe to topics on their respective user options pages. When you set up the topics you provided a regexp to match against to determine if a message is in that topic. This regexp is matched against the Subject: header of the message, the Keywords: header if any. Also in the Topics setup is a setting for topics_bodylines_limit. Mailman will also look at up to this many of the initial body lines of the message looking for pseudo Subject: and Keywords: headers. This body lines search stops when the limit is reached or a non-header like line is encountered. Say the regexp for the 'books' topic is 'books?'. A message will match the books topic if for example the Subject: contains the word 'book' or 'books' or the first body line is for example 'Keywords: books'. > I would like to have a subscribe page (or link) that allows the user to sign > up for the list and indicate which topics he wants to receive all in one > place. I really want to use custom skinned pages to do this. I know how to > write the pages for a simple subscribe/unsubscribe page but this whole mess > with topics is throwing me. Making Mailman support a single CGI transaction to both subscribe a user and specify topics for that subscription would require creating a new CGI and making significant source changes. The major hurdles are the fact that subscribing is a request that normally requires confirmation, approval or both, and topic subscription can only be done for an existing user. The current process has a mechanism for carrying things like the user's real name and preferred language with the subscription request, but that would have to be extended to carry topics as well. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
