[Mailman-Users] Mailman as a newletter manager

[Mark Sapiro]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>Julianna wrote:
>> 
>> 1. Remove the header information for the digest, as it deters from
>> the newsletter. This would be the From, Date and Message ID (I would
>> like to be able to keep the Subject). I know there is the "Hide the
>> sender of a message, replacing it with the list address (Removes
>> From, Sender and Reply-To fields)" option, but that is not enough.
>
>I'm not sure if you can remove all the digest details you want without
>changing the mailman code a little.  That's not too hard really, but
>might not be an option if you're using mailman on a shared web host.


If it is your Mailman installation, look at the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py
variables MIME_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS and PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS for
controlling which individual message headers appear in digests.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp>
for information about editing templates. The 'boilerplate' at the
beginning of the digest is the masthead.txt template.


>> 2. Allow moderators to make changes to the submissions, in case
>> spelling or punctuation errors are found.
>
>Mailman doesn't have a facility to edit the messages, AFAIK.


Todd is essentially correct here, but see
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.009.htp>.


>> 3. Suppress the autoresponder for non-subscriber posts but allow the
>> autoresponder for all posts. For all posts, I want an autoresponse
>> sent with more information. I was able to get this to work, but an
>> autoresponse is also sent for the "Post by non-member to a
>> members-only list" reason. If I set "Send mail to poster when their
>> posting is held for approval?" to "No", then no responses are sent;
>> if I set this to "Yes" and also set "Should Mailman send an
>> auto-response to mailing list posters?" to yes, non-subscribers get
>> two messages. Is there a way to suppress the "Post by non-member to
>> a members-only list" autoresponder?


This is not the way it's supposed to work. The autoresponses from
"Should Mailman send an auto-response to mailing list posters?" are
completely independent of the "Send mail to poster when their posting
is held for approval?" setting.

Are you sure you're not getting confused by the
autoresponse_graceperiod setting (Number of days between
auto-responses to either the mailing list or -request/-owner address
from the same poster.)?
	
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