[Mailman-Users] Re: options page error

[John Hamlin]

I believe I have no rights to the Host's Mailman/CGI directory, so I was
hoping there might be a switch or something like "/no_user" that could
be used to load the options page without the error.

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John Hamlin, News Systems Director
The Oregonian
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E-mail: johnh at news.oregonian.com
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>>> Paul H Byerly <paul at thcwd.com> 4/1/2004 11:53:06 AM >>>

John Hamlin wrote:
>We're hosted by pgHoster.com, which wisely has "personalization"
turned
>off for Mailman. This makes sense -- saves processor, etc. -- but it
>leaves me with no python variable for the "addressed_to" recipient to
>append to the URL for the options page. Thus instead of:
>
>http://my.com/mailman/options/xxlist_my.com/JoeBlow@xxx.com 
>
>I use: http://my.com/mailman/options/xxlist_my.com/ 
>
>This works, of course, in that it goes to the right page and the user
>can type in their e-mail address. No sweat. BUT ... since I have no
>email_address appended to the URL the user sees the error message
>stating this obvious fact!!
>
>Is there a way to avoid the error message at the top of the options
>page?

      It can be done - but you would have to hack a file and you many
not 
have the ability to do that.  The error message is found in 
<prefix>/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py .  I'd suggest modifying it to

cover your situation rather than removing it.

<>< Paul