David <d...@fiteyes.com> wrote: >I'm not sure what you call the long tail of footers that accumulates on >messages, but I would like to eliminate all prior footers (from the same >list). When the new reply goes out, it should include only one footer. BTW, >we're using full personalization and one link in the footer is like this: >%(user_optionsurl)s > >We could wrap the footer in a tag of some type if that would help. Any >suggestions? I would think this is a common request, but I can't find any >mention of it anywhere.
The short answer is train your users to not top-post and to quote minimally. Given that that is impossible, doing this would be best accomplished with a custom handler. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9> for information on installing custom handlers. You could implement a handler that does something along the lines of the following. It's tricky because the footer may be quoted and we don't know what the quote characters are. It's even trickier if the list allows HTML alternatives, and trickier still because of personalized replacements. A basic idea is: def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): for part in msg.walk(): if part.get_content_maintype == 'text': clean_footers(mlist, part) def clean_footers(mlist, part): txt = part.get_payload(decode=True) newtxt = [] changed = False for bodyline in txt.splitlines(keepends=True): for footline in mlist.msg_footer.splitlines(): footline = footline.strip() if not footline: continue if bodyline.find(footline) >= 0: continue changed = True else: newtxt.append(bodyline) if changed: part.set_payload(''.join(newtxt) What this will essentially do is remove from all text parts every line that contains as a substring any non-empty line of the list's msg_footer, but it doesn't handle replacements, and HTML makes it tricky because there may be added HTML tags that would cause the 'find' to fail, and there may be non-footer text on the same HTML source line as footer text. To do replacements, instead of for footline in mlist.msg_footer.splitlines(): you'd need something like: d = SafeDict({}) for user in msg.get_senders(): if mlist.is_member(user): d['user_optionsurl'] = mlist.GetOptionsURL(user) break d.update({'real_name' : mlist.real_name, 'list_name' : mlist.internal_name(), # For backwards compatibility '_internal_name': mlist.internal_name(), 'host_name' : mlist.host_name, 'web_page_url' : mlist.web_page_url, 'description' : mlist.description, 'info' : mlist.info, 'cgiext' : mm_cfg.CGIEXT, }) footlines = mlist.msg_footer % d for footline in footlines: plus from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman.SafeDict import SafeDict at the beginning of the module. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
