Hello Developers.

I have a client that would like to customize the subject line of the subscription acknowledgement message that mailman sends out when someone successfully subscribes.

We have successfully customized the lists/<listname>/en/subscribeack.txt message and it works great! However there does not appear to be any way to change the subject line of that message.

I have searched the documentation, list archives, and finally the source code. I could not find anything in the documentation or the archives but the relevant lines of source code appear to be here:

Deliverer.py line 75

msg = Message.UserNotification(
self.GetMemberAdminEmail(name), self.GetRequestEmail(), _('Welcome to the "%(realname)s" mailing list%(digmode)s'), text, pluser)

This appears to be a hard-coded subject line. :(

Would there be any work-around that wouldn't effect the subject line of every list on the system?

Ultimately I believe there should be two new options added to the General list information page right under "Send welcome message to newly subscribed members?"

Subject line of Welcome message: Welcome to the "%(realname)s" mailing list%(digmode)s

Body of Welcome message: <default body text>

Is there any chance this is something that might make it into Mailman anytime soon?

Any suggestions, hints, rants etc. are welcome.

Thank you.

-- John Lange BigHostBox.com (204) 885 0872