[Mailman-Developers] PLEASE HELP!!!!! need to customize subject line in new subscribers welcome message! in english (en?)

[Robby Griffin]

On Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004, at 13:36 US/Eastern, Craig Elkins wrote:

> PLEASE HELP!!!!! need to customize subject line in new subscribers 
> welcome message! in english (en?)
>
> i can't find the mailman.po english (US) version - i would assume the 
> directory would be called "en" and it would be in messages - but I 
> don't see it.  please tell me what i am missing here - my client is 
> about to shoot me!!!!!!!!  also, after i change the message what else 
> to i need to do?

The .po files are translations; there don't exist English translations 
because the English is the original. You can find the welcome message 
subject in Deliverer.py to make a quick-and-dirty change.

I am not an i18n expert though, so I'm not exactly sure what happens to 
translations when you change one of the original strings. My intuition 
is that the new string would be "untranslatable" using existing 
translations, so you'd always get the English version. If your client 
wishes to have properly translated welcome message subjects in other 
languages, you would probably need to update messages/mailman.pot and 
each of the translations. Also check README-I18N.en and the 
mailman-i18n list.

	--Robby