[Mailman-Users] changing default welcome message

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Christopher Adams <chris.a.adams at state.or.us> [20020829 18:51]: wrote:
> What is the "web UI" config options? Are you speaking of the web interface?

Yes, the latter.

> If so, all that allows me to do is eliminate sending a welcome message to
> users that the owner subscribes from the web interface and/or the text that
> the owner appends to the default.

Correct, I should have clarified myself. I am sorry I did not.


> That doesn't give the option of actually changing or elminating the default
> welcome message altogether. Maybe I am missing something.

I grep-ed thro the mailman directory and found the message locations:

sudo find /usr/local/mailman -type f -exec grep -li 'Welcome' {} \; | less


Then I took a look and saw that the welcome message is a template with
vars to be substituted. There must be another script that does the
subsitituions. I guess that script is the "add_member" script, but I am
not aware how you could manipulate either the welcome message template
or the add_member script to work on a per list basis.

The welcome message template  is in:

$prefix/templates/en/subscribeack.txt



-Wash

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