[Mailman-Users] invite hack

[Sean]

Hi all,

I'm trying to customize the invitations that get sent out by adding the
subject_prefix to the subject line so it looks like:

Subject: LIST_subject_prefix confirm CONFIRM_STING.

I made this change to MailList.py:

	sub_prefix = self.subject_prefix
	subj = sub_prefix + ' confirm ' + cookie

The problem that I've encountered now is that when you reply to the
invitation and maintain the subject Mailman doesn't process it:

"The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.


- Unprocessed:....."

I'm at a loss as to what other code needs hacked to make this work.  I
found cmd_confirm.py but I don't think the message gets past
CommandRunner.py since it just gives the 'Unprocessed' error.  Can anyone
offer any direction here?

It automatically skips any 'RE:'s in the subject so I didn't think the
adding the subject_prefix would matter.  Where is the code that ingores
the 'RE:'s in the subject?

The reasoning behind the change is these days people just scan down the
subject field and delete anything they don't recognize, in an effort to
avoid wasting time on spam.  Adding the subject prefix would help because
there is nothing about the author or subject of the existing invitation to
make it stand out as personal or list-related.

Sure, VERP may add more personalization but that is not an option since my
server is running upwards of 700 lists.  The performance hit would be too
much.

Thanks for any input,
Sean