[Mailman-Users] What is the difference between welcome.msg and subscribeack.txt
JB
jebva at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 20:10:34 EDT 2016
I always thought that the difference was that the acknowledge was sent when a new user requested to subscribe (to acknowledge the request and the new user to verify it) and that the welcome message was sent after the new user completed the subscribe process in its entirety as set up by the list owner. This is what the names would indicate to me anyway.
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On Fri, 5/13/16, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What is the difference between welcome.msg and subscribeack.txt
To: mailman-users at python.org
Date: Friday, May 13, 2016, 12:03 PM
On 5/9/16 5:55 AM, Henrik Rasmussen
wrote:
>
> Both can be edited by the list admin from the admin
webinterface in General Options -> welcome_msg and "HTML
Page Editing" -> "Welcome email text file",
respectively.
>
> What is the difference between the welcome_msg text box
and the subscribeack.txt and why would you, as list admin,
edit one over the other?
Historically, the ability to edit the subscribeack.txt
template via the
admin UI was added in Mailman 2.1.6. Prior to that there was
only the
welcome_msg to customize the welcome message.
The difference is welcome_msg is a list attribute, whereas a
custom
subscribeack.txt template is a list and language specific
template.
welcome_msg is simpler to edit and is part of the list's
configuration,
but is only in the list's preferred language.
subscribeack.txt is more complex to edit, but allows editing
of more
that just the 'welcome' paragraph. Also, by changing the
list's
preferred_language via the web UI (or directly editing the
templates/
directory, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030605>), it
is possible to
have list specific versions of this template in different
languages for
multi-language lists. but these templates are part of the
Mailman
instalation itself rather than list attributes.
The bottom line is it probably doesn't matter which you use
if the
welcome_msg is sufficient and if you don't need multiple
languages, but
if a list is 'moved' to a different installation, the
welcome_msg will
go with it ans the subscribeack.txt template(s) won't.
--
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use
your sense - B. Dylan
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