[Mailman-Users] Page includes

[Arthur J. Byrnes]

This is absolutely perfect!  Just what I was looking for...

It works good.

Thank you very much,

Arthur

At 06:06 PM 2/24/00 -0500, Scott Russell wrote:
>Arthur -
>
>I decided to play a bit and came up with this possible solution.
>Keep in mind I do not code python either. This is just what I
>could make out from the code. I did this against Mailman 1.2 from
>CVS but I susspect you can do the same:
>
>1) Backup the /home/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py file
>2) Edit the file.
>3) Look for the section def GetMailmanFooter(self):
>4) Change it to look like: (beware of line wraps in this email!)
>
>  def GetMailmanFooter(self):
>    owners_html = Container()
>    owners_html.AddItem(Link('mailto:%s' % 
> self.GetAdminEmail(), self.GetAdminEmail()))
># Comment out existing code. SMR 02/24/00
>#    for i in range(len(self.owner)):
>#      owner = self.owner[i]
>#      owners_html.AddItem(Link('mailto:%s' % owner, owner))
>#        if i + 1 <> len(self.owner):
>#          owners_html.AddItem(', ')
># End comment
>
>Sorry, no patch today. This is a hack to make each footer use
>'test-admin at hostname.com' as the mailto. In Mailman 1.2 this
>is an alias setup in the /etc/aliases file. If you update
>from 1.x to 1.2 in the future you'll need to re-hack the
>HTMLFormatter.py file.
>
>Try this with care and good luck.
>
>-- Scott
>
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:57:01PM -0500, Arthur J. Byrnes wrote:
> > I want to change our majordomo lists to Mailman, but there is
> > one little issue that is still holding me up.
> >
> > When your user looks at the listinfo page, at the bottom is the
> > data generated by the <MM-Mailman-Footer>, which includes the
> > email address of the list admin.
> >
> > We have some lists where the admin needs to be anonymous, and
> > this little thing keeps it from happening.  (Right now well tell
> > folks to send a message to
> > owner-whateverlist to contact the owner.)
> >
> > I would like to modify the footer to change the info to
> > owner-whateverlist, or just remove the info. I don't know much
> > Python yet, so I haven't been able to find where this
> > <MM-Mailman-Footer> is created.
> >
> > (This footer is not the footer included with the mail messages,
> > it is the one for the html pages from the server.)
> >
> > Could someone help me with how to change this?
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > -
> > ===========================
> > Arthur J. Byrnes
> > Unix System Administrator
> > Center for Information Technology
> > Stetson University,  DeLand, Florida
> > ===========================
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
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> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>
>--
>Regards,
>  Scott Russell (scottrus at raleigh.ibm.com)
>  Linux Technology Center, System Admin
>  Red Hat Certified Engineer

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Arthur J. Byrnes
Unix System Administrator
Center for Information Technology
Stetson University,  DeLand, Florida
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