[Mailman-Users] Email command upgrade

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sat Sep 25 17:05:22 CEST 2004


demo wrote:
>
>Just some humble feedback on the response message;
>
>This is one area where I find users fall over and die and the complexity of
>the response and don't know what to do. [ And it is usually normal users
>that are trying to use it to unsubscribe ]. It is very techie.
>
>Little things might help, like a few actual examples, so that something like
>[address=<address>] means something to them, and spaces between the " < > "
>or " [ ] " so they are not confronted by strange signs. [] looks like a box.
>
>I am not a coder and so cannot help I am afraid but may be an upgrade would
>be to autogenerate an email with a series of clickable links that generate
>emails that work with the given addresses.
>
>.... with unsubscribe *RIGHT* up the top!
>
>Have not worked out where to customise this myself yet but my 2c worth of
>thanks,
>

The help response is the help.txt file in the appropriate locale
directory in the templates directory.

One reason these are templates is to enable site specific changes to
meet site needs. You can edit these templates and a future update will
not overlay your changes.

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