Hi all,

I thought I'd send a summary of this in case anyone else needs to do it. Thanks to Mark for basically explaining all of this to me.

As a reminder of my original request, I have one of my lists set up in anonymous mode, but the list owner wants emails signed with "handles" used by folks on the list. For example, "bikerchick21 says:" followed by the rest of her message. When this anonymous list was setup, the owner put all of the handles into the Real Name field for each subscriber in the subscriber list. Now, I want to use this Real Name field in the msg_header variable on the non-digest admin page. Here are the steps:

1. Create Fromvar.py (my choice for the handler name) in the Mailman/Handlers directory. This code attempts to pull Real Name from the subscriber list first by matching the from email address with the list. If the mailman Real Name field is empty, it attempts to pull Real Name from the sender's email address. (Customer handler FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9) In the latter case my code just leaves the field blank to keep it either handles or nothing.

from email.Utils import parseaddr def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): from_name, addrs = parseaddr(msg['from']) if mlist.isMember(addrs): poster_name = mlist.getMemberName(addrs) or '' if not poster_name: poster_name = from_name msgdata.setdefault('decoration-data', {}).update( poster_name=poster_name)

2. Add this new handler to the global pipeline by editing the Mailman/mm_cfg.py file at the end:

################################################## # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Cleanse'), 'Fromvar')

3. Stop and start mailman. If things worked, you'll have updated Fromvar.pyc and mm_cfg.pyc files.

4. In the admin page under non-digest options, you can use "poster_name" in the msg_header or msg_footer areas. To do the bikerchick21 example, msg_header would have this:

%(poster_name)s says:

5. (Optional) When you Submit the change on the non-digest admin page, you'll get a warning about "poster_name" being an illegal substitution variable. You can ignore this, or you can change code in NonDigest.py. From Mark:

Modify Mailman/Gui/NonDigest.py. after the lines

def _setValue(self, mlist, property, val, doc):
    alloweds = list(ALLOWEDS)

add

    alloweds.append('poster_name')

If you make this change, stop/start mailman again. I can live with the warning, so I didn't bother.

Finally, please note that HTML-formatted messages (e.g. from Outlook or gmail interface) will have trouble with headers and footers as pointed out in http://wiki.list.org/x/84A9.

HTH,

Doug