[Mailman-Users] Customized subscribeack.txt

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DC" == David Casamento <dcas at tpg.com.au> writes:

    DC> We run more then one list off the same machines and would like
    DC> to have customized welcome messages to new subscribers. The
    DC> data contained in the /templates/subscribeack.txt file is what
    DC> is sent to each new member, as well as the Welcome message
    DC> manually entered in the web management interface. I would like
    DC> to know how to edit the subscribeack.txt file for one of the
    DC> lists only. Have tried adding that file to the lists local dir
    DC> but changes did not take effect as it was still reading the
    DC> file from the /templates dir

    DC> Is this possible ?

This will be much easier in Mailman 2.1, which supports "cascading
levels" of template lookup.  I.e. it looks for templates first in a
language-specific list-specific directory, and then moves up to more
general locations, eventually ending in templates/language.

-Barry