[Mailman-Users] including text in msg_header from external files

[Mark Sapiro]

Maciej Homziuk wrote:
> 
> I have got the following problem: I would like use my own application to 
> manage the headers in the e-mails that are being postet over my mailing 
> list. My application saves txt file on my server and I would like 
> mailman to load the content of that file and put it into the header.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?

How dynamic is this content. If it doesn't change often, you could 
consider wrapping it between

msg_header = """

and

"""

So the whole file looks like

msg_header = """Line 1
Line 2
etc.
"""

and then run

bin/config_list -i /path/to/file listname

to update the list.

You could also modify Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py to read the header 
from a file. To make it somewhat general, you could modify the 
decorate() function to look at the template argument and if it begins 
with a '/' consider it to be a path to a file containing the text. This 
would then work for messages and digests and headers and footers.

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