[Mailman-Users] using a "per-list" subscribeack.txt file, w/ patch

[Jon Carnes]

Thanks for finishing that up!  I meant to get back to it last week but... to 
much work and not enough time to play.

Jon Carnes

BTW, Perl rocks!
 --- Original Message: Thursday 18 April 2002 05:48 pm ---
> There was some discussion recently about using a different
> subscribeack file for each list.  The last word that I saw was a
> proposed patch, and a comment that the patch didn't seem to actually
> work.
>
> Turned out that I needed this functionality, and managed to get it to
> work.  Understand that I'm a perl programmer (hey, stop throwing
> stuff!), and this is the first piece of Python code that I've *ever*
> read, let alone touched.  Still, this seems to work.
> ~mailman/bin/version says: "Using Mailman version 2.0.9", but I didn't
> do the install (it's in a verio VPS).
>
> Anyway, here's the patch.  The one that I got from the list almost
> worked, this differs in getting the name of the list from
> self._internal_name and in passing self as a first argument.
>
> If you try this and it blows up, I found the stuff in
> ~mailman/logs/errors to be useful.
>
> Hope this help,
>
> g.
>
>
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: Deliverer.py,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -r1.1 Deliverer.py
> 49c49
> <             'subscribeack.txt',
> ---
>
> >             self.specwelcome(self._internal_name),
>
> 113a114,122
>
> >     def specwelcome(self, listname):
> >         """Return special welcome file for `listname' if it exists."""
> >         # If a special subscibeack.txt file exists in the lists home
> > directory # use that instead of the normal one specified in the templates
> > dir welcfile = os.path.join(mm_cfg.LIST_DATA_DIR, listname,
> > 'subscribeack.txt') if not os.path.exists(welcfile):
> >            welcfile = "subscribeack.txt"
> >         return welcfile
>
> sjphoto%
>
>
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