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  • From: Steven Peterson <address@concealed>
  • To: Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>
  • Cc: address@concealed
  • Subject: [sympa-users] Re: Global message.footer for robot
  • Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:48:11 -0500
Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

Steven Peterson wrote:

We have a large number of lists and want to have the same footer for every list within this robot. I know we can do this by placing a message.footer file in each expl/<list> directory, but this requires having a separate file for each list -- difficult to maintain if the robot's listmaster wants to change the footer. Is there a way to specify a global message.footer file for all lists in a robot?

Unfortunately there is no way to define defaults for message.footer and message.header. There are existing feature requests for that.
We first want to turn these headers/footers into templates ; they would move to mail_tt2/. Doing so would both allow to parse variables and to define site defaults.

You'll have to be patient ;-)

That is a great idea to turn them into templates.
One problem that you will probably face is how to insert a header/footer into an HTML page. I suppose you could do this by parsing the tags, for example, inserting the footer right before the closing </body> tag. Another way that gives you more control over appearance would be to create a standard template that defines the format for all sympa posted messages, then drop the extracted content of any posts into this master template. Something like:

<html><body><p> header info here</p>
[% HTML-Formatted-Message %]
<p>footer info here</p>
</body></html>

The problem then would be how to extract the content of a message from the original HTML posting.

With either method, parsing HTML files is part of the solution. I assume there are plenty of regex's for this.

- Steve



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