[Mailman-Users] Mailman customizations...

[jwm at plain.co.nz]

Greg Stein writes:
 > Mike Cisar wrote:
 > > 
 > 
 > The listinfo page is totally customizable. There are two general ways:
 > edit the template, and punt the template.
 
This is incorrect in my experience. Customizable for list
subscriptions, but not the page that tells you what lists are
available. 
 
Additionally, various responses from subscribe and handle_opts use

print doc.Format(bgcolor="#ffffff")

even when they are using a template (in 1.0b8 anyway). Just grep for
(bgcolor="#ffffff"). 

Actually the whole web page output/template interface in the cgi
scripts looks pretty easy to play with so I might chase up the
stragglers that need there own templates in my copious free time.

 > The other thing is to write up your own page and have the <FORM> in
 > there post to the appropirate Mailman URL. A buddy of mine has
 > subscription pages running on a completely different site. People fill
 > in the form and it does a POST to the machine that runs Mailman.
 
I've got some wrapper scripts that run on the web machine and use ssh
to execute the actual cgi programs on the machine with mailman on
it. They run pretty seamlessly, such that partylist at kaos.co.nz is
accessible directly via http://kaos.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/partylist, 
and all the other virtuals can use the same CGI wrappers. 

I might post them later this afternoon.
 
John.