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.
It doesn't look like it does, all the template files are html or mail body text files that I can see.
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.
Doesn't editing the public html files basically change the per list templates? And thats accessible from the web interface.
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.
What we have here is a disagreement about what constitutes simple.
Adding a custom header has been simple on some other mailing list managers I have used (smartlist, for example). And as you point out, there is quite a bit of per list customisation of message body possible with mailman. Just very little header customisation, apparently.
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.
Indeed. It appears I've hit one. Cheers David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
