[Mailman-Developers] msg_header: insertion of sender name/address

[Dan Mick]

Well, it looks like the header and footer get the entire mlist's
dictionary, plus mm_cfg.CGIEXT, to interpolate with, but nothing
per-message.  I suppose the right answer would be to change 
Decorate.py (or add a new module parallel to it) to add in selected
fields from the message dictionary (assuming there are no name clashes
between the mlist dictionary and the message dictionary, anyway).

    d = Utils.SafeDict(mlist.__dict__)
    d['cgiext'] = mm_cfg.CGIEXT
    # interpolate into the header
    try:
        header = string.replace(mlist.msg_header % d, '\r\n', '\n')
        
I don't see a way it can be done without hackery.       

> I had to read it twice, but this is not another question about whether user 
> names can be merged into a message for custom stuff.  Any idea if there is 
> a way to grab the Sender/From lines and put them into the message body?  I 
> think that the problem is that the mail systems that she is using munge up 
> the display of senders.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --chris
> 
> 
> >From: Patrick_Healy@nywd.uscourts.gov
> >X-Mailer: ccMail Link to SMTP R8.30.00.7
> >Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:39:40 -0500
> >To: <ckolar@admin.aurora.edu>
> >Subject: Mailman
> >
> >
> >Mr. Kolar,
> >
> >Sorry to bother you with this question, but I've not received any responses 
to
> >my question on the list.  I really appreciate any help you could give me 
> >on this
> >problem.
> >
> >In a nutshell - The federal judiciary uses Cc:Mail as it's enterprise email
> >system (soon to be replaced by Notes).  The Mailman lists that I've 
> >created and
> >administer work great to those clients.  However, they have no indication 
> >in the
> >body of the message of who sent the message.
> >
> >This means that unless the sender remembers to sign there note, it 
essentially
> >becomes anonymous.
> >
> >Is there an environment variable that I can insert into the custom header 
that
> >will cause the sender's name to be displayed?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Pat Healy
> >U.S. District Court, Western District of New York
> 
> 
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