Jon Forrest wrote: > >Here's what isn't clear to me. In looking at the contents >of oldlistname.cfg I see lots of good stuff. Some of it is obviously >specific to oldlistname, and some of it is generic list >configuration info. Is there any way I, as a new Mailman, >can tell which is which? For example, it looks like everything after >'subject_prefix' can be generic but I'm not sure.
It depends :-) For example, things like welcome_message and goodbye_msg may or may not be list specific, but if they are empty in your standard config, then they could be left in or omitted with the same effect for a new list. Likewise, things from Privacy options are probably list specific, but are likely empty. Note that the things in your config_list -o output are just the settings from the web admin pages together with their 'help text' except for Passwords and Membership Management... >Also, am I right in thinking that a better way of doing this, >once I've created a correct std.cfg, would be to put the stuff >from std.cfg into mm_cfg.py? Yes, but you can't do this directly. You may already understand this, but in case you don't, if you put anonymous_list = True in mm_cfg.py, it wouldn't result in an error, but it effectivly wouldn't do anything. However, if you look in Defaults.py, you will see DEFAULT_ANONYMOUS_LIST = No which defines the default setting for the anonymous_list attribute for new lists. So, yes it is appropriate to look through Defaults.py for all the defaults for new lists and override in mm_cfg.py those that you want to be different. Note however, that you can't make up settings for mm_cfg.py. For example if you wanted all new lists to have a non-empty ban_list, you can't do this by setting DEFAULT_BAN_LIST in mm_cfg.py because there is no such setting and even if you set it, Mailman won't look at it. You can only override Defaults.py settings in mm_cfg.py; you can't create new ones. -- 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
