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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> What I'd like to do is have that information request generate an
> automatic email that asks the questions - i.e., instead of the message
> saying "your request has been forwarded to the list owner" I'd like the
> message to say "please send the following information to list-owner@...."

It's very easy to edit these things.  Almost all service messages are
defined in templates under bin/etc/mail_tt2/ (in version 5.1), which you
copy to etc/mail_tt2 before customizing.  You can always grep all the
files there for the string in question to find the right template, and
if you don't find it there try greping all *.pm and *.pl files in bin in
case it's one of the ones that hasn't made it into a template yet.  This
one is in notice.tt2.

But with the localization scheme, where you probably really want to edit
it is not in the template itself but in the language catalog for your
site, in the source directory for Sympa.  So I
edit /usr/local/src/sympa-5.1/po/en_US.po, customize the translation
string for this message in English, then from the top-level Sympa source
directory run "make installlocale" to install the updated dictionary.
That way the translation into other languages from the template won't be
disabled.

If you don't care about that or don't want to deal with the catalog
complications, just edit the template file.  And see the section on
customizing Sympa, http://sympa.org/doc/html/node15.html.

     ab