[Mailman-Users] How do I Customize the Monthly Reminder?

[Mark Sapiro]

Bashir Ghandi wrote:
>
>I am a Mailman mailing list owner, and I am trying to
>cutomize the monthly reminder or at least append some
>custom text to it, but could not figure out how.
>
>I checked all the options on the List admin interface
>but no clue.
>
>Please note that I do have direct access to the
>machine hosting the mailman, as I am only a mailing
>list owner - so I have only the List Administrator's
>Web Interface to work with.

You can't do it in the web interface.

The reminder comes from a template named cronpass.txt. This can be
edited and an edited version (for each relevant language) installed on
a per list, per domain or hostwide basis, but it requires shell (or
maybe ftp) access to the Mailman installation. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp
for details of where modified templates are installed.

Since this change can be made for your list or domain only, you may be
able to convince the hosting provider to give you a copy of the
template(s) (or you could get it from
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/templates/) and
install your edited template(s) in the appropriate place(s).

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