[Mailman-Users] Mass Subscription - setting digest as default

[Todd]

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Matthew Davis wrote:
> I'm confirming this on my installation too.  Using mailman 2.1.
>
> Set digest_is_default to digest then went to the mass-subscribe and none of
> the members were subscribed as digest members.

Let me preface this by saying that I am *not* a python hacker nor do I know
Mailman all that well... but I was curious.

In ~mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py, there's a method, change_options, which
appears to handle the mass subscribe.  In that method, at line 1237, digest
is set to 0.  Looking at similar code in ~mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py,
digest is set to mlist.digest_is_default.  That seemed like a reasonable
thing to use in change_options so I tried it and it appears to work.  I
<sarcasm>thoroughly</sarcasm> tested this patch for all of 10 minutes. :-)

- --- Mailman/Cgi/admin.py.org	Sat Feb  8 00:31:14 2003
+++ Mailman/Cgi/admin.py	Sat Feb  8 00:29:52 2003
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@
         # Default is to subscribe
         subscribe_or_invite = safeint('subscribe_or_invite', 0)
         invitation = cgidata.getvalue('invitation', '')
- -        digest = 0
+        digest = mlist.digest_is_default
         if not mlist.digestable:
             digest = 0
         if not mlist.nondigestable:

I'm actually just curious to see if I'm on the right track here, so you'd be
wise to wait for Barry or another knowledgeable Mailman and/or Python hacker
to post a proper fix.  ;)

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