Mark Sapiro wrote: > Nigel Ridley wrote: > >>I read the documentation: >>http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/index.html >>and it looks pretty complicated (and I'm not sure if I could do all of >>what is required on my hosted website). > > > > Usually, one does not have sufficient access to a hosted server to > install mailman. > > > >>I have a website with a Mailman list (using cpanel - which came with the >>hosting plan) and I would like to have multiple mailing lists. >>Basically they would be announcement lists having the same content but >>in several different languages. >> >>Q. What is the best way to set up such a system? > > > > You could have a list per language and post to each list in it's own > language. Ideally, each list's preferred_language attribute would be > the language you post in, but this would not be an absolute > requirement. > > Mailman has no facility for actually translating the content of a post > to another language. The language options control the language of > notices, web pages and canned messages only.
No I didn't expect Mailman to translate content for me -- I know it's good but....... > > > >>The problem using cpanel is that it defaults Mailman to English and my >>hosting company said it would be better to install Mailman in my own space: >><quote> >>You would have to install a copy of mailman under your own space to take >>advantage of the language packs. Any change we would make to the >>serverwide install would just be overwritten by cpanel when next it updated. >><end quote> > > > Either I don't understand your issue or cPanel is worse than I thought > or your host doesn't understand Mailman's language support. I think they don't understand -- see below: > > To set up a list in French for example, go to the Mailman admin > interface Language Options page. Check French under available > languages and Submit Your Changes. Then set preferred_language to > French and Submit Your Changes again. If this isn't available on your > hosted installation, then maybe you can't do it. If you can, then > there is nothing that the host has to change to support this that > would be reversed in an update. > Yes! I went to the Language Options page and yes I can change the default language :-) So now I just have to figure out my next move -- I would really like about 10 or 12 mailing lists for the different languages -- is that possible if I can install Mailman in my 'own space'? My web hosting company doesn't see a problem for me to install Mailman: <quote> Mailman is to be installed by a username anyway, as noted in the documentation. There might be a few symlinks we have to set up for you, but other than that there's no trick to it. <end quote> Anyway, you have cheered me up no end :-) Blessings, Nigel -- It's not a problem -- it's a learning opportunity. -- ------------------------------------------------------ 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