Hello, I'm using mailman1.1 (linux - debian) and have multiple mailman lists setup. I have one particular list which needs to have the subscription confirmation message customized.

Background: the name of the particular list is not descriptive of the company and neither is the domainname, so when a user gets a confirmation request to subscribe, they may not remember they had signed up for that list.

I looked around at my files and i see a verify.txt file in /etc/mailman. That appears to be the file mailman uses to compose its email confirmation request.

The file looks like: We have received a request%(remote)s for subscription of your email address, <%(email)s>, to the %(listaddr)s mailing list. To confirm ...

I guess I could edit the verify.txt and customize it, but I believe that would affect my other existing lists.

Is there a way to customize it so that it only affects that particular list and not the others? Or, is there some setting where you can tell a particular list to use a different set of config files besides /etc/mailman?

And, on another note, does any one know how to "clone" a list (not a user). I'm setting up a bunch of lists that all need the same preferences (archive off, moderated, etc.). The only difference is that the name of the lists will be dfferent. Is there a way to setup the lists so I don't have to go through all of the admin html pages for each list?

TIA, Chris

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