Walt Dabell wrote:
I was trying to change the default admin message sent to people who were trying to post to the list, who the list didn't think were subscribed. A _LOT_ of people these days are subscribing with one address, then trying to post from another. They get real bent when the only message (from a lazy admin) they get when they try to post from the wrong address is:
Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list.
I wanted to change the default to:
Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list. If you are already a member, PLEASE remember to post from your subscribed address.
If your Mailman is 2.1.6 or later, you do this with nonmember_rejection_notice in the admin/privacy GUI.
To do so, I modified /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py then did
$ python
import py_compile py_compile.compile('Hold.py')
Now nothing gets held for approval... That I can tell. I tried copying back a same version Hold.pyc from another machine and it still doesn't work.
As Brad pointed out, you don't need to recompile. Python does this as needed, but you do need to do
bin/mailmanctl restart
after any mm_cfg.py or Handler module changes (and other changes that affect the queue runners) too.
Now, you may have a modified Hold.py that's newer than Hold.pyc, so Python will ignore the Hold.pyc and recompile Hold.py so the thing to do is restore the original Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py, remove Mailman/Handlers/Hold.pyc and then do the restart as above.
If this doesn't restore things to the way they were, you'll need to look at other things that might have changed.
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