[Mailman-Users] Display of Names in Moderator Subscription ApprovalRequest Emails

[Mark Sapiro]

Jerry Hole wrote:

>I have a private list set up that requires moderator approval. List 
>members are approved based upon who they are. Their email is not enough 
>to determine their identity. How can I get the name of those requesting 
>subscription approval to show up in the moderator emails?


You would need to add for example a %(fullname)s replacement to the
subauth.txt template for the list (see
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp>)
and you would need to change this code fragment in
Mailman/ListAdmin.py from

            text = Utils.maketext(
                'subauth.txt',
                {'username'   : addr,
                 'listname'   : self.internal_name(),
                 'hostname'   : self.host_name,
                 'admindb_url': self.GetScriptURL('admindb',
absolute=1),
                 }, mlist=self)

to

            text = Utils.maketext(
                'subauth.txt',
                {'username'   : addr,
                 'fullname'   : fullname,
                 'listname'   : self.internal_name(),
                 'hostname'   : self.host_name,
                 'admindb_url': self.GetScriptURL('admindb',
absolute=1),
                 }, mlist=self)

i.e., add the

                 'fullname'   : fullname,


line.

Perhaps a simpler method is to just publicize that the way to subscribe
to the list is to send an email to an appropriate address with a
request including who you are, whether you want messages or digests,
etc., and then the appropriate person can mass subscribe or invite the
member.


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