The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Mayo <address@concealed>]

Hi guys,

--On 14 March 2007 17:22 +0100 address@concealed wrote:

> address@concealed wrote:
>> 
>> Is it possible to remove the 'Rename List' option under the Admin
>> sub-menu? We don't want our users renaming their lists after they have
>> been set up!
>>   
> The feature is shown only if the user is authorized to create list
> because we didn't want to introduce one more parameter for it. If you
> need user to be able to create list but not to rename it, you have to
> modify the related web tt2  template.   The file is named
> list_admin_menu.tt2.

Thanks to yourself and Eddy for pointing this out - this is great, I've now
also manage to move the 'Manage Subscribers' link to the top of the list!

> Take care where you install this new template. Depending on its location
> it will applyed for all lists of all robots, for all lists from a
> specific robot or for a particular list. Do not modify the original file
> : in this case modification will be lost after next update. Report to
> http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/customizing#site_template_files

Yes, very aware of this. I'm copying all modified files to the proper
location before changing them.

> ps : what was your previous mailing list manager ?

We are using a mixture of MMDF and EZMLM - MMDF is too basic (doesn't allow
us to moderate) and EZMLM is too complex (users can't cope with anything
that isn't a web interface these days). Plus now there is the extra
requirement to handle a second domain. Sympa looks the tool for the job,
mainly as we can authenticate users using their existing accounts and
passwords! We can also switch to a pure Exim setup rather than qmail, which
no-one here has any experience with any more.

Thanks for the swift responses - there are lots of other things I need to
iron out before we go live so I'm sure I'll be in touch again soon!

Regards,


Dave
Networks/Systems Administrator
University of Bath Computing Services