At 1:36 PM -0500 2004/01/27, Craig Elkins wrote:

i can't find the mailman.po english (US) version - i would assume the directory would be called "en" and it would be in messages - but I don't see it. please tell me what i am missing here - my client is about to shoot me!!!!!!!!

The templates are in ~mailman/templates, and there is an en/ 

subdirectory under that (among all the other languages known). If you want to make changes to the templates used for a supported language for a particular list, you need to copy the appropriate templates to a subdirectory by the same name under ~mailman/lists/listname (e.g., ~mailman/lists/listname/en), and then make changes from there.

If you're looking for a particular file (e.g., mailman.po), you 

can always do a "find ~mailman -name mailman.po -print", which on my system prints the following:

% find . -name mailman.po -print find: ./archives/private: Permission denied ./messages/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/da/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/de/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/es/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/et/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/hr/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/it/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/no/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/ro/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/sl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po ./messages/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po

Note that there is no .../en/.../mailman.po file, which is a 

compiled binary python executable (so far as I can tell). This is not a file that should be edited. Try editing the templates instead.

                        also, after i change the message what

else to i need to do?

I'm not sure, but you may need to stop and restart mailman.

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