[Mailman-Users] privacy alert

[Sean]

Thanks Mark.

In general, I think this would be useful information to include in the
source to help system administrators block offending IP addresses from the
servers.  Any thoughts about this, pro or con, before I file an RFE?

Sean


On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Sean wrote:
> >
> >I was unable to find a template for the privacy alerts that Mailman sends
> >out when an attempt is made to subscribe an address that is already
> >subscribe to the list.
>
> That's because it's not a template.
>
> >Where is text that Mailman uses to generate these
> >messages?
>
>
> It is coded directly in Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py
>
>
> >I would like to edit the text to include the IP address that made the
> >subscribe attempt like it is include in the verify.txt.
>
>
> You can edit the text in the above module. I think you can use
> %(remote)s in this text to get the IP address.
>
> If you are concerned about languages other than English, you also have
> to edit the corresponding messages/<language>/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po
> and then regenerate the corresponding mailman.mo file using
> bin/msgfmt.py.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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