I always thought that the difference was that the acknowledge was sent when a new user requested to subscribe (to acknowledge the request and the new user to verify it) and that the welcome message was sent after the new user completed the subscribe process in its entirety as set up by the list owner. This is what the names would indicate to me anyway.
-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 5/13/16, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What is the difference between welcome.msg and subscribeack.txt To: mailman-users@python.org Date: Friday, May 13, 2016, 12:03 PM On 5/9/16 5:55 AM, Henrik Rasmussen wrote: > > Both can be edited by the list admin from the admin webinterface in General Options -> welcome_msg and "HTML Page Editing" -> "Welcome email text file", respectively. > > What is the difference between the welcome_msg text box and the subscribeack.txt and why would you, as list admin, edit one over the other? Historically, the ability to edit the subscribeack.txt template via the admin UI was added in Mailman 2.1.6. Prior to that there was only the welcome_msg to customize the welcome message. The difference is welcome_msg is a list attribute, whereas a custom subscribeack.txt template is a list and language specific template. welcome_msg is simpler to edit and is part of the list's configuration, but is only in the list's preferred language. subscribeack.txt is more complex to edit, but allows editing of more that just the 'welcome' paragraph. Also, by changing the list's preferred_language via the web UI (or directly editing the templates/ directory, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030605>), it is possible to have list specific versions of this template in different languages for multi-language lists. but these templates are part of the Mailman instalation itself rather than list attributes. The bottom line is it probably doesn't matter which you use if the welcome_msg is sufficient and if you don't need multiple languages, but if a list is 'moved' to a different installation, the welcome_msg will go with it ans the subscribeack.txt template(s) won't. -- 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/jebva%40yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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