Welcome Message

[grantbow]

Problem: Currently, welcome message text can only be
prepended to a fixed subscribeack.txt. Welcome
messages should be fully customizable by list
administrators that do not have command line/shell
access to their mailman installations, an arrangement
that is not unusual for hosted ISPs (like mine).

Solution: The following one line patch allows the use
of the existing editing capability with the
subscribeack.txt file.

Result: Mailman list administrators without shell
access will have more control and can customize welcome
messages to exactly meet the needs of their subscribers.

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Note: If this is the right approach I would be happy to
follow up with additional patches to adjust the text of
the existing "HTML selection" page and other
appropriate places.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-June/029676.html

Note: I obtained this idea from this message by Todd
<Freedom_Lover at pobox.com> to Mailman-users and have
created this patch for the CVS version of mailman.

--- Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py.orig 2001-11-30
00:00:18.000000000 -0800
+++ Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py 2004-12-10
12:09:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     template_data = (
         ('listinfo.html', _('General list
information page')),
         ('subscribe.html', _('Subscribe results page'))
+ ('subscribeack.txt', _('Welcome email text
file')),
         ('options.html', _('User specific options
page')),
         )

[grantbow (grantbow-users-sf)]

The file edithtml.py.patch was added: edithtml.py.patch

[bwarsaw (bwarsaw)]

Logged In: YES
user_id=12800

Accepted for Mailman 2.1.6.