On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 10:51 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
CVR> The other key one for me are some of the admin messages CVR> (Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py). I've modified some of the CVR> messages for various reasons, and it'd be nice if I could CVR> simply override their definitions in the mm_cfg.py fileI'll have to think about this. One hackish idea (untested) is to try to import Mailman.Hold from mm_cfg.py, and then set the class's __doc__ attribute with the message you want.
I think a more general solution is to rethink the admin messages, and make them part of the site and list databases. You would have 0 ... n definitions, each of the form:
regex action message lockflag
where the latter is in the site database only.
actions would include HOLD, DISCARD, REJECT and whatever else people would find useful.
you could then define this as a set of python regexes (with, I think, a few procmail-esque extensions, so you could define whether to look in header, body or both, and in the body, optionally the first N lines...), and do something with it, and a message including python ''' multiline format.
The lockflag is so the site admin can, if they choose, keep list admins from over-riding definitions. So for each message, you'd check the site-wide LOCKed lines, then the list definitions, then the site-wide definitions, and stop on the first match. that way, you stop having to migrate global definitions to each list, and have to worry about updating them on updates...
And make them definable, editable and viewable from the web interface so the list admins and site admin can tweak them.
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