# Copyright (C) 2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. """GUI component for managing the non-digest delivery options. """ from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman import Utils from Mailman.i18n import _ class NonDigest: def GetConfigCategory(self): return 'nondigest', _('Non-digest options') def GetConfigInfo(self, mlist, category, subcat=None): if category <> 'nondigest': return None WIDTH = mm_cfg.TEXTFIELDWIDTH info = [ _("Policies concerning immediately delivered list traffic."), ('nondigestable', mm_cfg.Toggle, (_('No'), _('Yes')), 1, _("""Can subscribers choose to receive mail immediately, rather than in batched digests?""")), ('msg_header', mm_cfg.Text, (10, WIDTH), 0, _('Header added to mail sent to regular list members'), _('''Text prepended to the top of every immediately-delivery message. ''') + Utils.maketext('headfoot.html', mlist=mlist, raw=1)), ('msg_footer', mm_cfg.Text, (10, WIDTH), 0, _('Footer added to mail sent to regular list members'), _('''Text appended to the bottom of every immediately-delivery message. ''') + Utils.maketext('headfoot.html', mlist=mlist, raw=1)), ] if mm_cfg.OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION: info.extend([ ('personalize', mm_cfg.Toggle, (_('No'), _('Yes')), 1, _('''Should Mailman personalize each non-digest delivery? This is often useful for announce-only lists, but read the details section for a discussion of important performance issues.'''), _("""Normally, Mailman sends the regular delivery messages to the mail server in batches. This is much more efficent because it reduces the amount of traffic between Mailman and the mail server.
However, some lists can benefit from a more personalized approach. In this case, Mailman crafts a new message for each member on the regular delivery list. Turning this feature on may degrade the performance of your site, so you need to carefully consider whether the trade-off is worth it, or whether there are other ways to accomplish what you want. You should also carefully monitor your system load to make sure it is acceptable.
When personalized lists are enabled, two things happen.
First, the To: header of the posted message is
modified so that each individual user is addressed
specifically. I.e. it looks like the message was addressed
to the recipient instead of to the list.
Second a few more expansion variables that can be included in the message header and message footer.
These additional substitution variables will be available for your headers and footers, when this feature is enabled: