Developers of Sympa

[Philip Crandall <address@concealed>]

I agree that it would be nice to have as a variable that exists in 
sympa.conf/robot.conf (maybe as 'gecos').  I set this globally by using a 
perl command in your /home/sympa/[bin/]etc/mail_tt2/ directory:

> perl -p -i.old -e 's/^From: SYMPA(.*)/From: My Service\1/g' *.tt2

A patch looks fairly straight-forward.  You would need to add the 
sympa.conf/robot.conf variable to Conf.pm.  There is also an edit required to 
List.pm in sub send_file (around line 3190) to make the 'gecos' variable 
available to the templates.  You could then run the same perl script on the 
template files, but it would be like:

> perl -p -i.old -e 's/^From: SYMPA(.*)/From: \[% conf.gecos %\]\1/g' *.tt2

Hope that helps.  If I get a chance, I'll submit a patch upstream for it.

Cheers,
Philip Crandall
University of Chicago

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Taylor [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:21 PM
> To: Jobst Schmalenbach
> Cc: address@concealed; address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] SYMPA "from" name
> 
> 
> > But if it comes from "Barrett ListServer" (in my case) it would be
> obvious what that means, especially if you entered your email address
> into a subscription box 10 minutes earlier!
> >
> > The 1600 odd people that are subscribed to one of our lists contain
> Managers, sales people, HR and so on and I had a few people having had
> some troubles due to their low knowledge.
> 
> We have a similar problem. It would be nice if the name was
> configurable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon Taylor
> 
> P.S. Over 40 but a geek ;-)
>