Christopher Adams wrote: >That is good to know. Is the Mailman/Handlers/Moderate.py file >overwritten in an upgrade?
Yes. basically all the python modules except mm_cfg.py are overwritten in an upgrade. >I recently changed all lists using withlist >to use specific text for rejected non-member messages. If I modify the >Moderate.py file, that should take care of all new lists, unless a list >owner chooses to modify their list. Changing this in Moderate.py is not the way to go. Look at Mailman/MailList.py in the definition of InitVars, you'll see something like the following without the line wrapping. self.forward_auto_discards = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_FORWARD_AUTO_DISCARDS self.generic_nonmember_action = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION self.nonmember_rejection_notice = '' # Ban lists self.ban_list = [] Here you change self.nonmember_rejection_notice = '' to (again watch for wrapped line) self.nonmember_rejection_notice = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_NONMEMBER_REJECTION_NOTICE and put DEFAULT_NONMEMBER_REJECTION_NOTICE = '' in Defaults.py. This is not critical in your case, but it would be required (actually in Defaults.py.in) for a general patch. Then you can put DEFAULT_NONMEMBER_REJECTION_NOTICE = """First line of notice second line etc. last line """ in mm_cfg.py and it will work. This is not quite so simple to do in the Mailman distribution because the text that actually winds up in the list's nonmember_rejection_notice should be in the language of the list, and there's no way to translate arbitrary text. I.e., consider a site that supports lists in multiple languages. The fixed text built in to Moderate.py can be replaced on the fly with the translation into the list's language, but arbitrary text in mm_cfg.py can't be translated in this way. It would be entered in one language and even if the language of the new list is different, it wouldn't be translated for that list. Thus, the practical solution given the way i18n works in Mailman is to have the default be the canned message, and let the list owner provide the desired text if it's different. Allowing a sitewide, arbitrary, default message just wouldn't work for multi-language sites. So, in your case, the best thing is to put the default text in mm_cfg.py as above and then remember to make the one-line patch in MailList.py after any upgrade. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp