[lug] Weird Mailman Issue

Ryan Wheaton ryan.wheaton at comcast.net
Wed Dec 3 16:41:10 MST 2003


I've gotten everything set up / sending mail / receiving mail, etc. 
This listserv is only going to be used as a newsletter type of deal, 
and not a discussion list.  We're going to mass subscribe all of our 
clients, and then if they want, they'll have the option to unsub.  I've 
even gotten the list set up so that only certain people can post to it 
etc.

I have been working on the customization of it, look and feel, etc. And 
am now working on the unsub part.  I'm going through the admin 
interface and editing the HTML.  I've edited the list's listinfo page 
so that the only thing showing is the unsubscribe portion of it.  I 
also edited the user specific options page so that there's only info 
about unsub'ing with the unsub button and the checkbox saying "i'm 
sure."  I thought that I had it all working great (worked great for 
me), but when I tried it on other machines, it didn't work right.

The listinfo page came up as i had customized it, but when you entered 
your email address, it took you to a mailman user options page (like it 
origionally was) instead of my customized page.  I couldn't quite 
figure it out, so, in the same browser session, i went back to the 
admin edit html interface and re-submitted the customized code without 
making any changes.  Then (again in the same browser session) clicked 
back to the listinfo page, entered my email address, and it took me to 
the correct page.  When I close the browser and start over, it takes me 
to the mailman page instead of the customized page.  I've done this 
over and over again with the same results, on different machines and 
with different browsers.  Any idea why it would display the correct 
page only sometimes?

I've stopped and started apache, and I don't see any offending URL's in 
the apache logs (all the URLs in the logs show up as the same as the 
listinfo page for the list), and i'm at about wit's end.  I was going 
to have my programmer look at the python code tomorrow to see what may 
be going on, but i'm not sure that will be much help.

Thanks for listening, and i sure hope someone can help.

-ryan




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