[Mailman-Users] Welcome messages

[Mark Sapiro]

Anne Ramey wrote:

>Question about welcome message options.  If I have my welcome message 
>option under General Options turned off, it doesn't send out welcome 
>messages.  Period.  Even if I say to do so on the mass subscription 
>page.  I thought the individual subscription options would override what 
>you have under general options, not the other way around.  Is it 
>supposed to work like this or do I have a problem?  I'm using mailman 
>2.1.8 on RHEL 4

It's supposed to send the welcome if you check the box regardless of
the list setting, but there is a bug. In this case, the mass subscribe
process calls the SendSubscribeAck method in Deliverer.py to send the
welcome, but SendSubscribeAck erroneously checks the list setting and
doesn't send the welcome if the list setting is Off.

This check needs to be removed from SendSubscribeAck. I'll fix it for
the next release.
 
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