[Mailman-Users] Editing the options page shown to you when you are not logged in

[Mark Sapiro]

On 8/20/19 2:31 AM, Flo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/20/19 12:38 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> On 8/19/19 2:23 AM, Flo wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to adapt the member options page when I am *not* logged in. For
>>> example:
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/debianflo%40gmx.at
>>
>>
>> This page is built on the fly by the loginpage() function in
>> Mailman/Cgi/options.py using hard coded strings. See the FAQ I just
>> created at <https://wiki.list.org/x/17892046> for suggested ways to
>> change these strings.
>>
> 
> I checked this page. And checked the source files.
> 
> Before I change anything I see, let's say, difficulties:
> 
> .) The changes are not by list (as possible for the listinfo page, for
> example) but by server.
> .) I want to rearrange the sections: the unsubscribe section should be
> first to make it easy to leave the list (to be more compliant to the
> General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe). For me, sending a
> one-click link (with the password included) is not compliant as this is
> a data security issue.
> For this rearranging I need to change options.py as well.
> .) With every update I do I need to redo the changes described before.
> 
> Especially the German page needs to be changed. Translation is wrong. I
> think some text from another page found its way to this page. For that I
> will get in contact with the one who is dealing the the German
> translation anyway.
> 
> Do you see a possibility to work around the difficulties I described above?


The ideal way to accomplish what you want is to modify the loginpage()
function in options.py to build the page from a template as is done for
many other pages. That way, you could make list and language specific
versions of the template.

I have no plan to do this for the source distribution, but I would
consider a merge proposal
<https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1>.

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