Re: [Mailman-Users] Read-only announcement list
At 11:15 AM 5/25/00 , Griff Wigley wrote:
I'm having trouble setting my list to read-only announcements. I found previous discussion about this in the March archives but I still have questions.
Set the list to posting by members only.
Set it to moderated.
Set yourself as an automatically approved poster.
But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It displays:
You may need to hand edit that page.
-- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Quoting J C Lawrence (claw@kanga.nu):
At 11:15 AM 5/25/00 , Griff Wigley wrote:
I'm having trouble setting my list to read-only announcements. I found previous discussion about this in the March archives but I still have questions.
Set the list to posting by members only.
Set it to moderated.
Set yourself as an automatically approved poster.
Set the moderator address to an account that is bit-bucketed.
-- Paul Tomblin ptomblin@xcski.com, not speaking for anybody "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
At 10:45 PM 5/27/00 , J C Lawrence wrote:
At 11:15 AM 5/25/00 , Griff Wigley wrote:
But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It displays:
You may need to hand edit that page.
Ok, thanks, J C. But the same thing happens with the automated welcome message sent to new users:
"To post to this list, send your email to:
How do I edit that?
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:09:15PM -0500, Griff Wigley wrote:
Ok, thanks, J C. But the same thing happens with the automated welcome message sent to new users:
"To post to this list, send your email to:
How do I edit that?
templates/subscribeack.txt contains the template for the main welcome Email. I believe if you want to customize it on a per list basis, you will need to hack Mailman/Deliverer.py (for 2.0 series) directly to select the appropriate template.
You can disable the welcome message completely or prepend something to it from the list's general options page.
-- Jim Tittsler, Tokyo Python Starship http://starship.python.net/crew/jwt/
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But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It displays:
You may need to hand edit that page.
(As far as I'm aware) You can't do this in MailMan 1.1. Because there is only one template for the welcome message. Which means if you edit it then all the lists have that change.
If you really want to change the text for all the lists then look in mailman/templates/ - particularly subscribeack.txt.
(Has this changed in version 2?)
Regards, Chuck
| [...] | | > >> But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It | > >> displays: | > | > You may need to hand edit that page. | | (As far as I'm aware) You can't do this in MailMan 1.1. Because there is | only one template for the welcome message. Which means if you edit it | then all the lists have that change.
Hmm. I am not running 1.1, I'm running 2.02b, but I am able to modify each individual page (it lives in the /home/mailman/lists/listname/ directory as "listinfo.html") for each list. So I modified the templates in the templates directory to use my stylesheets, backgrounds, colors, etc. but do the rest of the cleanup for my announce-only lists by hand.
I wouldn't call it intuitive; you have to be careful which Mailman widgets you step on in the page, but you can always refer back to the templates directory if you don't like what you produce.
-Sheryl
Wrote Sheryl Weidner on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:49:55AM -0700:
| [...] | | > >> But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It | > >> displays: | > | > You may need to hand edit that page. | | (As far as I'm aware) You can't do this in MailMan 1.1. Because there | only one template for the welcome message. Which means if you edit it | then all the lists have that change.
Hmm. I am not running 1.1, I'm running 2.02b, but I am able to modify each individual page (it lives in the /home/mailman/lists/listname/ directory as "listinfo.html") for each list. So I modified the templates in the templates directory to use my stylesheets, backgrounds, colors, etc. but do the rest of the cleanup for my announce-only lists by hand.
I wouldn't call it intuitive; you have to be careful which Mailman widgets you step on in the page, but you can always refer back to the templates directory if you don't like what you produce.
But you can't customise the welcome email sent out when people subscribe right?
Chuck
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