At 12:42 PM +0800 2004-08-31, David Cake wrote:
I guess my questions really is 'do the existing per-list customisation options include any way of changes to the mail headers beyond what is already accessible from the GUI?'
You can change the templates, but I don't recall off the top of my head whether that allows you to change the headers used within the message. I don't think it does, but I might be wrong.
To change the templates, you'll need to have command-line access to the server. Modifying these is not possible from the web admin interface.
And, as a followup, if it requires source code level changes, is there a sane and sensible way of doing these on a per list basis so my installation remains upgradable? I know python, but I'm in no hurry to make by installation unmaintainable.
On a per-list basis? No. If you wanted to make modifications to the headers, you'd either have to make a single change in a central place that is reflected in all the headers on all the lists, or you'd have to invent your own infrastructure to support a per-list mechanism for changing/adding headers.
Alternatively, has anyone else managed to tackle the same problem by an alternative route, say procmail, or via their MTA rules (postfix in my case, despite my other thread).
Procmail would be one potential solution, but I don't recall of having heard anyone say that they'd done this sort of thing before. Of course, now that I've said this, I'm hoping that someone else will pipe up and tell me that I'm wrong.
I did. It told me mailman wasn't a CRM and I shouldn't expect to do any customisation on an individual message basis (apart from VERP) which I was already pretty clear on. I don't want complex per user customisation (which the FAQ entry was pretty clear I wouldn't get), I want simple per list customisation (which the FAQ entry left me a bit unsure about).
Then the FAQ entry must have left you with an incorrect impression, because through modifying the templates, you can make changes to the message bodies, and that can be done on a per-list basis. Moreover, those message bodies are capable of using variable substitution field names on a per-user basis. This is how we create the footers on some mailing lists that will have a link direct to your user login page for the list in question.
But there are limits to what you can do. That is the key impression that I had hoped to leave with the FAQ entries on this subject.
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