RE: Welcome Mail and List Mail Text
Greetings Mailman,
My name is Shirley Marshall of Perfect Sites Web Design, and I have just recently partnered with Web4Designer to host my clients' sites, and they use Mailman for their mailing needs.
Now I've gotten the whole mailing list set up for my client, and it seems to be functioning great - with one major glitch! My client - and most of my other clients who will soon follow this one - does NOT want this to be a 'post-to' mailing list. It is to be used exclusively to send out newsletters and other mailings, but is not designed to be a discussion list.
I've managed to disable that option/link in most places, but, it continues to come up on every Welcome Mail as well as being automatically inserted at the top of every mailing! I cannot find anywhere to edit this part of the mails and it is causing confusion and many problems for my client.
How can I go about removing the option/link to post to the mailing list from the e-mails? I had hoped that disabling that option in your settings area would automagically remove the option/link on the mails, but it is still showing up.
I would very much appreciate it if you could explain to me how I can accomplish this in 'layman's terms' as I do not understand 'tech-speak'!
And if at all possible, it would probably be best if you could explain it to me so I can make the necessary changes, because I already know there are at least four more clients of mine coming on board at Web4Designer and they ALL will NOT want to have the option to post included on their mailing lists!
Since this is something that will need to be done on virtually all of my client's accounts, I'm sure it would be much easier for you also, if you can just show me once what needs to be done, and then I will be able to do it in the future without troubling you! ;-)
I look forward to your speedy reply and hope to resolve this issue in a timely manner.
Thank you so much for your prompt attention to this urgent matter!
Best Regards,
Shirley Marshall Perfect Sites Web Design
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NetInfo wrote:
How can I go about removing the option/link to post to the mailing list from the e-mails? I had hoped that disabling that option in your settings area would automagically remove the option/link on the mails, but it is still showing up.
You didn't say which version of mailman you're using. Since 2.1 speaks many languages, the location of the file you need to edit is slightly different than in 2.0.
In Mailman 2.1, you want to edit ~mailman/templates/en/subscribeack.txt and in 2.0, it's just ~mailman/templates/subscribeack.txt (I think, I don't have a 2.0 install handy at the moment).
Editing this file will change the message site wide, which sounds like what you want. If, however, you need to edit this file for just one particular list, you would copy subscribeack.txt to ~mailman/lists/<listname>/en in MM 2.1 and ~mailman/lists/<listname> in MM 2.0.
I would very much appreciate it if you could explain to me how I can accomplish this in 'layman's terms' as I do not understand 'tech-speak'!
I'm not sure if my answer qualifies or not. I assume that if you've gotten mailman installed that you'll know how to move around the file-system and edit text files. ;)
HTH,
Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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