From 1835339 at bugs.launchpad.net  Wed Jul  3 23:16:47 2019
From: 1835339 at bugs.launchpad.net (eHWS Team)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:16:47 -0000
Subject: [Bug 1835339] Re: Variables in "On demand password reminder" message
 do not work
References: <156220978814.24806.7359173862583302154.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com>
Message-ID: <156221020766.21327.7199581148543877565.launchpad@gac.canonical.com>

** Summary changed:

- Variables in "On demand password reminder" Message
+ Variables in "On demand password reminder" message do not work

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From 1835339 at bugs.launchpad.net  Wed Jul  3 23:09:48 2019
From: 1835339 at bugs.launchpad.net (eHWS Team)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:09:48 -0000
Subject: [Bug 1835339] [NEW] Variables in "On demand password reminder"
 message do not work
Message-ID: <156220978814.24806.7359173862583302154.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com>

Public bug reported:

Dear MailMen,

The "On demand password reminder" message is configurable in the "Edit
the public HTML pages and text files" menu item, as is the "Welcome
email text file" message.

However, while the variables/parameters %(listname)s, %(user)s and
%(password)s can be used in the "On demand password reminder" message,
the variables/parameters %(welcome)s, %(real_name)s, %(host_name)s,
%(optionsurl)s do NOT work.

When we send out a password reminder to our many users, we would like to
include more information, e.g.:

- A link to where they can change their list options, which needs %(optionsurl)s
- A link to where the list archive is, which needs %(host_name)s and %(real_name)s
- The e-mail address of the list, which also needs %(host_name)s and %(real_name)s
- etc.

Can you enable these variables/parameters so that we can easily
customise and configure these messages?


PS: It would be great to have a list of all the variables/parameters that can be used in mailman messages!

 
Many thanks,

eHWS Team

** Affects: mailman
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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From mark at msapiro.net  Sun Jul  7 22:47:12 2019
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 02:47:12 -0000
Subject: [Bug 1835339] Re: Variables in "On demand password reminder" message
 do not work
References: <156220978814.24806.7359173862583302154.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com>
Message-ID: <156255403333.25282.13440978609360333874.malone@soybean.canonical.com>

The variables for substitution in the various templates are in general,
the only ones used in the default template. For a definitive list do
something like `grep -r template_name /path/to/Mailman` to find where
the template is used and then look at the substitution dictionary.

E.g., `grep -r userpass.txt /path/to/Mailman

gives hits at Mailman/Deliverer.py and Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py. The
latter is for the "Edit the public HTML pages and text files" interface
and the relevant piece in the former is:

        text = Utils.maketext(
            'userpass.txt',
            {'user'       : cpuser,
             'listname'   : self.real_name,
             'fqdn_lname' : self.GetListEmail(),
             'password'   : password,
             'options_url': self.GetOptionsURL(user, absolute=True),
             'requestaddr': requestaddr,
             'owneraddr'  : self.GetOwnerEmail(),
            }, lang=lang, mlist=self)

You can edit the code to add any substitutions you like, but it is
unlikely that this will be implemented in the distribution.


** Changed in: mailman
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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