[lug] Weird Mailman Issue

[Hugh Brown]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:41, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> 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
> 


When I played briefly with Mailman, there was a config file that you
created to override default settings.  In the docs it said that if you
modified the original config file, that it would get overridden.  It
sounds like the file is getting generated based on input from somewhere
else.

I'd go look and see what action is associated with the form that you are
entering your email address in.  Then check to see what it does, etc.


googling on "mailman customizing html pages" gave me this tidbit in the
first link.


Two ways to change the HTML pages used for Listinfo:
  Edit the page at its source, ~mailman/lists/listname/...
  Edit the page from the Admin interface, "Edit the HTML for the public list
pages "


Sounds like you tried the second, you might try the first.

Hugh