[Mailman-Users] Custom key/values in auto-responses

[Vish Vishvanath]

Thanks Mark for pointing me in the right direction, I'll see what I  
can manage. :)

Vish


On 31 Jan 2009, at 15:56, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Vish Vishvanath wrote:
>>
>> Running my second install of Mailman, going well, v 2.1.11 on BSD  
>> 7.0,
>> and wondering how to add custom key into welcome messages.
>> Essentially, I need to add a download link into the welcome emailer,
>> but it needs to have the email of the recipient inserted into it -
>> it's a one-time expiring download thank you (of my photographs,
>> actually.)
>
>
> The welcome message is built from the subscribeack.txt template which
> can be edited via the web admin "Edit the public HTML pages and text
> files" link or according to the information in the FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9>.
>
> Normally, the only replacements available for a template without
> modifying the code that uses it are the ones used in the base
> template, but in this case, there is an additional %(user)s
> replacement available which will receive the user's email address.
>
> If you actually wanted to add a custom key/value for this template,
> you'd have to modify the code in the definition of the
> SendSubscribeAck() method in Mailman/Deliverer.py.
>
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